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How AI could generate new life-forms | Eric Nguyen

How AI could generate new life-forms | Eric Nguyen

TED Talks Daily · TED

August 25, 202513m 5s

Show Notes

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.

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