Dan Roan
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 28 Aug
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At the time the chief operating officer predicted that breaking ranks could result in his departure, adding that he had a duty of loyalty to his employer, but also to certain values, if that means I lose my job.
If you're not going to be able to do that, you can't get a little bit more than a little bit of a little confirm that Mr Lemoore had left, with staff told that the two parties had agreed to part ways after careful consideration.
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They've basically taken artificial intelligence tools and used it to design machines
viruses completely from scratch and then they started making those in the laboratory to see if they actually worked and they took 300 of these AI designs and 16 of them turned into viruses that were fully functional in the laboratory.
So let's just get in really early, Valerie, and just make it clear that these are not viruses that are going to go around infecting people or anything like that.
They're a particular group of viruses that infect bacteria.
So we already know that generative AI tools have done things like help design new vaccines and helped design new antibiotics for treating drug resistant infections.
But this really feels like quite a significant step up.
Because now instead of just designing one single compound, one little protein, this is actually the whole genome, the entire genetic code of a virus that is being developed completely from scratch and producing something that is actually viable at the end of it.
That is a big step up.
Now it is worth noting that this is still a very long way from what you might want to call creating life or anything like that.
So it has a very tiny genetic code, these viruses, and are not technically deemed as being alive.
You'd have to produce something that was like a hundred times bigger in terms of the amount of genetic code before you were getting to those most basic single-celled organisms in the natural world.
But this is still doing something that so far nature has not done.
This is creating viruses that don't exist in the natural world.
It is quite a breakthrough.
Well, if you think about the big picture, first of all, not necessarily just the viruses, but what this really shows you is the power of using generative AI to harness the power of biology that goes above and beyond what's actually available in the natural world.
So that could be...
designing new immunotherapies antibodies that can go into the body to treat immune diseases it could be new ways of targeting genetic diseases in the body it could be like in this example developing viruses that eat bacteria so maybe you could design ones that could attack bacterial infection and there is a huge amount of work going on to find those viruses naturally in the wild but maybe you could just design them in the laboratory
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