In a landmark study published in Science, researchers from Stanford and the Arc Institute used AI to design complete, functional bacteriophage genomes from scratch. This isn't incremental protein folding—it's full genome design, a first in virology. The AI models, Evo 1 and Evo 2, were trained on millions of DNA sequences to learn the evolutionary grammar of viral life. Out of nearly 300 synthesized designs, 16 produced viable viruses that successfully infected...