AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine

NEWS FEATURE
11 July 2023

Digital art techniques can now devise custom, working biomolecules on demand.

“OK. Here we go.” David Juergens, a computational chemist at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, is about to design a protein that, in 3-billion-plus years of tinkering, evolution has never produced.

Nature 619, 236-238 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02227-y

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