But in Earth’s environment, most proteins don’t last nearly that long. That’s because organisms have evolved a handful of ...

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 ...

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AI is expanding our protein universe. Thanks to generative AI, it’s now possible to design proteins never before seen in nature at breakneck speed. Some are extremely complex; others can tag onto DNA ...

Watermarks have long protected everything from bank notes and fine art to digital photographs and software, helping prove ...

A grant from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's foundation is giving the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design unprecedented cloud computing power for its research into novel proteins for medicine and ...

An illustration shows a protein overlaid with binary code. Artificial intelligence–based protein design can introduce challenges for biosecurity screening software. Credit: C&EN/Shutterstock On a call ...

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 ...

In a new move, researchers have shown that protein design software can incorporate motion into its outputs. The resulting protein gives a wave with one arm as it binds and releases a calcium ion ...

For decades, drug hunters have largely ignored the oily interior of the cell membrane, treating the membrane-spanning ...