It’s a breakthrough that sounds straight out of sci-fi. A team at Stanford University announced in a recent preprint that they’ve used AI to generate a virus genome, and from that produced functional virus particles. The viruses in question are bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria – they can’t infect humans, or any other animals for that matter. But applications of this technology have the potential to impact human society in a big way. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

ChatGPT for DNA? We had to find out more, so we caught up with senior author Dr Brian L. Hie , Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and supervisor of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Design.

“A lot of the progress in AI for biology has happe

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