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- 2 Indian Navy Receives ‘Mangrol’ ASW-SWC
- 3 Machilipatnam: Seventh Mahe-Class Anti-Submarine Warfare Craft
- 4 India Leases Two MQ-9B SeaGuardian Drones
- 5 Indian Navy Inducts Nipun
- 6 Rotating Detonation Engine: A New Leap in Fuel-Efficient Propulsion
- 7 3D Model Could Improve Forecasting of Solar Eruptions
- 8 NASA’s ‘Big Bang’ Fix Gives Voyager 2 Another Year in Interstellar Space
- 9 IN-SPACe Guidelines for Planned Re-entry of Space Objects
- 10 SpaceX Reaches 100 Falcon Missions in 2026
- 11 X1: World’s Largest Fully Battery-Powered Aircraft
- 12 AI Platform MutAIverse Traces Chemicals Linked to DNA Damage
- 13 AI Framework Uncovers Hidden Cancer Stem Cells
- 14 IIT Patna Develops Hybrid Magneto-Rheometer for Smart Fluids
- 15 Light-Activated Nanobots for Targeted Breast Cancer Therapy
- 16 Smart Cancer Drug RK-251
- 17 Thunderquakes: Using Thunder to Map the Earth’s Subsurface
- 18 Mandatory Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication
- 19 800 kN FFSC Rocket Engine
- 20 India’s First Indigenous African Swine Fever Vaccine
- 21 Moken Sea Nomads and Underwater Vision
- 22 IARC Classifies Three Common Medicines as Group 1 Carcinogens
- 23 IUCAA Discovers X-ray Binary System in Magellanic Bridge
- 24 Bio-Inspired Coating for 3D-Printed Bone Implants
- 25 Reusable Rocket Stage Recovery by China
AI Designs Complete Viral Genomes to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Recently, scientists have used AI to design complete genomes of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, opening a potential new avenue for developing alternatives to antibiotics.
What Did the Researchers Develop?
- AI-Designed Genomes: Researchers generated complete bacteriophage genomes using AI rather than designing individual genes or proteins.
- Genome Models: They used Evo 1 and Evo 2, genome language models trained on millions of genomes.
- Starting Framework: The models used the naturally occurring bacteriophage ΦX174 as a starting framework.
- Novel Designs: The AI-generated genomes contained new combinations of genes and regulatory elements that differed from naturally occurring viruses.
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