World’s first AI‑designed vaccine explained
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed what they describe as a fundamentally new type of vaccine using AI (artificial intelligence). The vaccine’s key component was designed entirely by AI and has now been tested in people for the first time. The goal is ambitious: a single vaccine that works not just against all known human coronavirus variants, but against related bat viruses that could jump from animals to humans and cause future pandemics. Traditional vaccines train our immune system to recognise one specific virus. The problem is that viruses mutate. When they change enough, the vaccine stops working,