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The report has not been peer reviewed or published in a scientific journal. Company officials said the trial had been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration. “We take our responsibility to protect patient confidentiality and maintain the trust of our clinical partners extremely seriously,” said Eric Nguyen, chief executive of Radical Numerics. “We intend to publish our scientific findings through peer-reviewed research, with any future disclosure of clinical details subject to appropriate consent,” he added. Get Starting PointA guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter EmailOutside experts greeted the news with curiosity and a wait-and-see attitude. “If it works, that’s incredible,” said Michael Baym, a microbiologist at Harvard University who was not involved in the research. If the experiment succeeds, it could point to a new way to use AI in medicine, providing individualized treatment that targets even the most resistant bacterial infections. Baym said he would reserve judgment until the treatment is finished and it becomes possible to examine just how novel the company’s viruses are.
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