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Although proteins are composed out of only a small number of distinct amino acids, this deceptive simplicity quickly vanishes when considering the many possible sequences across a protein, not to ...

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative diffusion, the same technology behind popular image-creation platforms such ...

Remember when predicting protein shapes using AI was the breakthrough of the year? That’s old news. Having solved nearly all protein structures known to biology, AI is now turning to a new challenge: ...

"A key idea was the proper image-like representation of protein structure, such that the diffusion model can learn how to generate novel proteins accurately," says Lee, who is from Vancouver but did ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the scientific landscape, offering fantastic solutions to some of the most pressing global challenges. From combating climate change to transforming ...

For the field of drug development, hitting the right target with atomic precision to achieve therapeutic effect remains the core challenge. While traditional R&D pipelines are dependent on ...

Google spent much of the past year hustling to build its Gemini chatbot to counter ChatGPT, pitching it as a multifunctional AI assistant that can help with work tasks or the digital chores of ...

Inspired by digital art generators like DALL-E, biologists are building artificial intelligences that can fight cancer, flu and Covid. By Cade Metz Last spring, an artificial intelligence lab called ...