Early one morning, Stanford researchers bent over petri dishes of the bacterium E. coli, looking for signs viruses designed by artificial intelligence could neutralize it. Samuel King, a second-year bioengineering Ph.D. student and one of the researchers in the study, said, “If the phage doesn’t work, the E. coli grows into a cloudy culture,” King said. “But if the phage does work, there are little clear spots where the phage is killing the E. c…
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