The AI-Designed Bioweapon Arms Race

Interesting article about the arms race between AI systems that invent/design new biological pathogens, and AI systems that detect them before they're created: The team started with a basic test: use AI tools to design variants of the toxin ricin, then test them against the software that is used ...

Using LLMs to Create Bioweapons

Im not sure there are good ways to build guardrails to prevent this sort of thing: There is growing concern regarding the potential misuse of molecular machine learning models for harmful purposes. Specifically, the dual-use application of models for predicting cytotoxicity18 to create new poison...

Malware attack can trick biologists into producing dangerous toxins

By Deeba Ahmed Researchers urge for improving bio-cybersecurity as threat actors can use malware to target Synthetic DNA Orders to modify DNA strings sequence. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malware attack can trick biologists into producing dangerous toxins...

Ученым удалось расшифровать геном южных комаров

14:33 01.10.2010 Ученым удалось расшифровать геном южных комаров, способных быть переносчиками таких заболеваний, как малярия, энцефалит, лихорадка Западного Нила, филяриатоз и другие смертельно опасные заболевания. При помощи исследования полученного генного материала исследователи надеются...