AI-Designed Phage Reaches a Patient, but the Evidence Stops There

AI-Designed Phage Reaches a Patient, but the Evidence Stops There

Radical Numerics, which left stealth in June 2026 with a $50 million seed round, says it treated a patient’s multidrug-resistant bacterial infection with a bacteriophage cocktail — viruses that infect bacteria, not human cells — whose variants its AI model generated. The company posted a technical report on 20 October; The New York Times reported … Read more