AI tools are designing entirely new proteins that could transform medicine

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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.

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Nature 619, 236-238 (2023)

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

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