
AI Unveils Hidden Virosphere: Discovery of 70,000 New Viruses
By using artificial intelligence in a groundbreaking study in 2024, researchers finally managed to prevail upon the so-called “dark matter” of RNA viruses, discovering more than 70,000 species that were not known previously. This ground-breaking breakthrough has taken advantage of advanced knowledge of state-of-the-art metagenomics and machine learning methods, showing great insight into the covert…