On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

Recent advances in AI, from AlphaFold to generative models, are reshaping protein design, enabling scientists to create novel proteins with precise functions. Researchers are now developing proteins ...

Funding supports global expansion of ScalaOS, a hybrid AI-driven protein design software platform enabling faster design and optimization of biologics, enzymes, antibodies, and vaccines Scala ...

Protein design aims to create customized antibodies for therapies, biosensors for diagnostics, or enzymes for chemical reactions. An international research team has now developed a method for ...

OpenProtein.AI is helping biologists stay on the cutting edge of AI with a no-code platform for protein engineering. (Nanowerk News) Artificial intelligence is already proving it can accelerate drug ...

A protein created by RFdiffusion3, a newly released protein design tool from Nobel laureate David Baker’s lab, interacting with DNA. (UW Institute for Protein Design / Ian C. Haydon Image) David Baker ...

Protein engineering is a powerful biotechnological process that focuses on creating new enzymes or proteins and improving the functions of existing ones by manipulating their natural macromolecular ...

Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test ...

Various approaches to such protein redesign have drawbacks. Traditional methods include time-consuming trial and error efforts, and many models in the emerging field ...

Proteins are far more than nutrients we track on a food label. Present in every cell of our bodies, they work like nature's molecular machines. They walk, stretch, bend, and flex to do their jobs, ...

In October 2023, two scientists at Microsoft discovered a startling vulnerability in a safety net intended to prevent bad actors from using artificial intelligence tools to concoct hazardous proteins ...