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Stanford-led team designs and synthesizes 16 viable AI-generated bacteriophages (Research / Biosecurity)
Aug 7, 20262 reports
Aug 7, 2026
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Stanford-led team designs and synthesizes 16 viable AI-generated bacteriophages (Research / Biosecurity)
A Science paper from Stanford, the Arc Institute and collaborators reports using genome language models (including Evo) to generate thousands of novel bacteriop…
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Stanford and Arc: genome language models design self-replicating novel bacteriophages for the first time (Synthetic biology)
Stanford University and the Arc Institute reported in Science that genome language models Evo 1 and Evo 2, prompted from bacteriophage ΦX174, generated on the o…
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