{"id":1027378,"date":"2026-08-08T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027378"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:53:54","slug":"scientists-design-ai-viruses-unknown-in-nature-spark-medical-hope-and-biosecurity-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/scientists-design-ai-viruses-unknown-in-nature-spark-medical-hope-and-biosecurity-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists design AI viruses unknown in nature spark medical hope and biosecurity alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have used artificial intelligence to design and synthesize complete viral genomes that do not exist in nature. It comes as a watershed moment in synthetic biology that promises to revolutionise the fight against drug-resistant infections while triggering urgent warnings about biosafety and biosecurity. <\/p>\n<p>In a landmark study published on Thursday (August 6) in the peer-reviewed journal Science, researchers from Stanford University and the Arc Institute in California demonstrated that generative AI models can write coherent,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have used artificial intelligence to design and synthesize complete viral genomes that do not exist in nature. It comes as a watershed moment in synthetic biology that promises to revolutionise the fight against drug-resistant infections while triggering urgent warnings about biosafety and biosecurity. In a landmark study published on Thursday (August 6) in the peer-reviewed journal Science, researchers from Stanford University and the Arc Institute in California demonstrated that generative AI models can write coherent,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027381,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027378\/revisions\/1027381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}