A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins.
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A Microsoft-led research team reports a "biological zero-day" in DNA order screening systems, which could miss AI-designed protein toxins. The article explains how current biosurveillance screens DNA orders against known pathogen and toxin sequences and has evolved from exact sequence matching to protein-level recognition. However, the rise of AI-generated proteins may evade these safeguards, raising concerns that dangerous sequences could be synthesized without detection.
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