Eric Nguyen: How AI could generate new life-forms

How AI could generate new life-forms

If DNA is just a string of letters, could AI learn to read it … or even write it? Bioengineering researcher Eric Nguyen reveals how AI has upended the rules of biology, potentially creating a future where disease is cured with personalized medicine, extinct species are resurrected (Jurassic Park, anyone?) and microbes designed for Mars make interplanetary life possible. Learn more about how the world's first AI-designed CRISPR model successfully edited genes — and what it means for our understanding of life itself.

AI can now generate whole stretches of DNA, opening the door to designing new life forms rather than just studying or editing existing ones. Scientists built an AI system trained on 80,000 genomes, which successfully created the world's first gene-editing CRISPR system from scratch. As this technology advances, the line between reading and writing the code of life blurs, offering possibilities from personalized medicine to resurrecting extinct species. The shift raises big questions about safety, ethics, and the future role of humans in creating life.

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