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fromNature
4 days ago

World's first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life

This is the first time AI systems are able to write coherent genome-scale sequences", says Brian Hie, a computational biologist at Stanford University, California. "The next step is AI-generated life", says Hie, but his colleague Samuel King adds that "a lot of experimental advances need to occur in order to design an entire living organism". The study, by Hie, King and colleagues, was posted on the preprint server bioRxivon 17 September and is not yet peer reviewed,
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fromMail Online
3 weeks ago

Scientists create a new form of life unlike anything in nature

Scientists engineered Syn57, an E. coli strain with a 57-codon genetic code, enabling new protein creation, viral resistance, and reduced gene flow with natural organisms.
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