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A California biotech startup claims it has administered an AI-designed virus to humans for the first time

A California biotech startup claims it has administered an AI-designed virus to humans for the first time

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Radical Numerics, a California AI lab, says the treatment, called Omnii-1, went to a patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection and very few other options. The firm announced it on Tuesday, but the claim has not been through a peer-reviewed study, where independent experts check the work. A Harvard microbiologist, Michael Baym, said his "impulse is to be skeptical".

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