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Startup Claims To Use AI-Created Viruses To Treat a Patient
TL;DRScientists used AI-designed viruses to treat a patient for the first time.
Why it matters: Demonstrates AI can accelerate drug discovery for previously untreatable infections like antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: For the first time, scientists say they have used viruses designed by artificial intelligence to treat a human patient. Researchers announced on Tuesday that they had administered the virus, known as a phage, to a…
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