Each year, snake bites kill upwards of 100,000 people and permanently disable hundreds of thousands more, according to estimates from the World Health Organization. Promising new science, enabled by ...

It’s been trained on 771 billion unique tokens – the AI term for a unit of data – taken from databases of natural protein ...

In a study published in Science, researchers detailed how they used advanced language models to fast-forward evolution, simulating hundreds of millions of years of genetic changes ...

Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks of life, have evolved through this process to perform various biological ...

Yet, that was far from the end of the story for AI and protein folding. On today’s pharmaphorum podcast, Glen Gowers, co-founder of Basecamp Research, gets into the company’s recent pre-print ...

I became interested in how we can use AI on this problem. Ultimately, it’s really about how we understand biological systems to make people healthy. How do we understand these proteins that are very ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed an AI-based platform that designs short proteins, termed peptides, ...

It has been a few years since AI began successfully tackling the challenge of predicting the three-dimensional structure of proteins, complex molecules that are essential for all life. Next ...

Researchers have created new proteins that neutralize lethal toxins ... of different toxins unique to each snake species—the AI-generated molecules provide full protection from lethal doses ...