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The award recognizes Jason McLellan’s work to investigate how viruses infect our cells and to develop new treatments for ...

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AI can now invent working biological viruses. In real world experiments, a team of Stanford researchers demonstrated that a virus with AI-written DNA could target and kill specific bacteria, they ...

Herpes viruses are hugely common all over the world ... we need to be open to those ideas,” he said. “Science is a living thing, and this work is a great example of that.” Disclaimer: AAAS and ...