The US Department of War has awarded Flagship Pioneering up to $47 million to build AI platforms that predict viral evolution before outbreaks happen. Here's what the ONTARGET deal means for biosecurity, pandemic readiness and the AI-bio arms race.
German scientists used generative AI to design Synthetic Transfer Vehicles, protein shells that carried RNA into cells more efficiently than the lipid nanoparticles they tested and delivered a CRISPR edit in a pig.
Jennifer Doudna's lab used an AI protein-design model to build a synthetic gene-editing enzyme, SynTnpB, that edits human cells nearly twice as efficiently as the natural version. Here is what the Science paper actually shows, and what it does not.
