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Researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute used AI models Evo 1 and Evo 2 to design hundreds of novel bacteriophage genomes, 16 of which produced fully functional viruses capable of infecting E. coli. The breakthrough opens new avenues for combating antibiotic resistance but raises biosecurity concerns.
The Arc Institute hosted its 3rd Annual Investigator Retreat, featuring talks on genome engineering, generative protein models, computational biology, and deep dives into neurodegeneration, immunology, and metabolism.
Arc Institute welcomes Usman Muzaffar as CTO, drawing on his engineering leadership at Cloudflare to advance their Virtual Cell Initiative and computational infrastructure.
The Hsu and Konermann labs at Arc Institute developed COMBINE, the first platform for systematically testing combinatorial interactions of epigenetic readers, writers, and erasers, screening over 50,000 effector pairs.
Arc Institute announces the 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge, a global competition to predict cell responses to stimuli, with a $100,000 grand prize, starting August 20.