Machine learning (ML) and other AI- based computational tools have proven their prowess at predicting real-world protein structures. AlphaFold 2, an algorithm developed by scientists at DeepMind that ...

Synthesizing new proteins – the building blocks of biological life – is a scientific field of immense potential, and a newly developed AI model promises to create instructions for new proteins way ...

With a newly developed method that compares AI-generated protein sequences with naturally occurring ones, function- and ...

Therapeutic protein design is evolving—and it is doing so in more than one sense of that word. Protein design is being guided by artificial intelligence (AI), which drug developers are using to ...

Viruses need to infect their hosts’ cells in order to replicate. But the hosts tend to not want these pathogens utilizing their resources, killing their cells, and putting their lives in danger. As ...

Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists discovered that a key shift in enzyme function occurred over ...

Research led by the University of Auckland has cast light on the evolutionary origins of one of nature's first motors, which ...

A critical goal in genetics and evolution is predicting the effects of mutations that may happen in the future and inferring the effects of those that happened in the past. To make these predictions, ...

This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

Landfills are overflowing with plastic trash. Serial inventor Jonathan Rothberg’s Protein Evolution found a solution: using AI to create enzymes that can recycle old polyester textiles into a material ...