A new vaccine designed to provide broad protection against COVID-19 and related coronaviruses has begun human trials. The ...

Adam Broerman, a graduate student in the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design, studies an engineered protein that can turn off protein interactions. (IPD Photo / Ian Haydon) The ...

Many of the food industry’s most persistent problems exist not in the realm of business and economics – scaling, costs of materials and the like – but in nature itself. Crops, which the food industry ...

The co-lead authors of a study publishing today in Science describing AI-designed proteins for target health theraphies, from left: Julia Bonzanini, Nathan Greenwood and Bingxu Liu. All are ...

At the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design, chemical engineering Ph.D. student Adam Broerman examines a new anti-cancer protein that has built-in controls. A new way to potentially control when ...

Pretein design researcher Yulai Liu holds an enlarged 3D printed model from his team's efforts to design functioning calcium channels entirely from scratch. He is standing in David Baker's lab at the ...

Proteins designed by artificial intelligence (AI) are being considered for use in treating everything from snakebites to cancer. A Nature Communications paper, out this week, describes how Australian ...

While protein design is experiencing a period of rapid development and advancement, there’s one particularly challenging class of proteins that’s giving researchers a hard time: enzymes. Now ...

Making biofuels is messy, inefficient and expensive. Vast quantities of crops such as maize and soyabeans must be grown, harvested and processed before their energy, accumulated slowly through natural ...