https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/science/indoor-air-viruses-bacteria.html
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September 13, 2026NYTimes: This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
August 17, 2026Sailor Logs Run on Strava—Accidentally Leaks Location of Iran-Bound Warship – Newsweek
August 16, 2026Role of ventilation on the transmission of viruses in buildings, from a single zone to a multizone approach – PMC
August 15, 2026https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9541182/
QT:{{” We observe that this widespread recommendation to open the window of a quarantine room and to seal the door is based on the consideration of a single zone model. We illustrate the importance of moving from such a single zone approach to a multizone approach for quantifying ventilation and airing impacts in multizone buildings as residences in order to prevent epidemics of viruses such as
SARS‐CoV‐2. It highlights the need of air leakage databases. “}}
Guyot, G., Sayah, S., Guernouti, S., & Mélois, A. (2022). Role of ventilation on the transmission of viruses in buildings, from a single zone to a multizone approach. Indoor Air, 32(8), e13097.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.13097
Could an $800 air filter be a cheap fix for the threat of airborne COVID in hotel quarantine? – ABC News
August 15, 2026To prevent SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission in designated quarantine hotel for travelers: Is the ventilation system a concern? – PMC
August 15, 2026https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8447387/
Wong, S., Chen, H., Lung, D. C., Ho, P., Yuen, K., & Cheng, V. C. (2021). To prevent SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission in designated quarantine hotel for travelers: Is the ventilation system a concern? Indoor Air, 31(5), 1295–1297. https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12870
With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint – The New York Times
January 28, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/science/alphagenome-ai-deepmind-genetics.html
QT:{{”
But Dr. Koo and other outside experts cautioned that it represented just one step on a long road ahead. “This is not AlphaFold, and it’s not going to win the Nobel Prize,” said Mark Gerstein, a computational biologist at Yale.
AlphaGenome will be useful. Dr. Gerstein said that he would probably add it to his toolbox for exploring DNA, and others expect to follow suit. But not all scientists trust A.I. programs like AlphaGenome to help them understand the genome.
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In 2021, Dr. Avsec and his colleagues unveiled a preliminary A.I. called Enformer, which they have since expanded into AlphaGenome. They trained the program on an even greater expanse of biological data. “It’s really an industrial scale,” Dr. Gerstein said
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