Opinion

AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology

For example, researchers have found that AI models integrated with automated labs can optimize how well a virus spreads, even without specialized training. Scientists have developed a risk-scoring ...

AI is reengineering drug discovery by speeding up testing and scanning petabytes of data for connections between diseases

AlphaFold, which predicts three-dimensional, bioactive forms of a protein, has millions of sequences and a couple of hundred thousand structures. It can tell you, based on a particular pattern, what ...