AI Has Designed Living Genomes—And They Worked in the Lab

In brief Stanford researchers used AI to compose entire viral genomes—not edits, but full DNA blueprints from scratch. Sixteen of the 302 AI-generated phages came to life, replicating and even outcompeting the natural virus they mimicked. The work hints at custom-designed phage therapies—and raises urgent questions about governing generative biology. This week, while some headlines...