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Arc Institute

3 developments involving Arc Institute in 2 countries and bodies. The most recent is Google DeepMind publishes SynthID Bio watermarking for AI-designed proteins in Nature, 30 Sep 2026.

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  1. ResearchScienceUK US
    Google DeepMind publishes SynthID Bio watermarking for AI-designed proteins in Nature

    DNA-synthesis screeners can use the open code to check whether an unfamiliar sequence came from a vetted model, and watermarked designs showed similar binding in lab tests.

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  2. ResearchScienceUS
    AI-designed bacteriophages kill E. coli strains resistant to a natural phage

    AI-designed viruses that kill resistant bacteria point to new treatments, and sharpen the biosecurity question of what else such models can design.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  3. ResearchScienceUS
    Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2, trained on DNA from 128,000 genomes

    Biologists gained an open model for reading and designing DNA at genome scale; Arc excluded pathogens that infect humans from its training data for safety.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)