Ars Technica

Protein structure and design software gets the Chemistry Nobel

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 ...

AI model designs potentially stable protein sequences beyond those found in nature

A protein's function is determined by its structure, and structure—the way a protein folds—is determined by its sequence of ...
The Pennsylvania State University

Cellular maintenance crew may miss as much as half of certain misfolded proteins

A new study led by Penn State scientists revealed that proteins containing a certain type of structure are more likely to ...
Stocktwits on MSN

Pasqal and True Nexus open a new quantum frontier for the global protein economy

True Nexus and Pasqal reach a first milestone in making protein functionality visible on neutral-atom quantum computing — ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists’ Work on Protein Structure, Which Governs All Aspects of Life, Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their work on protein structure. Atila Altuntas / Anadolu via Getty Images On Wednesday morning, ...
Nature

Protein Structure

Proteins are the end products of the decoding process that starts with the information in cellular DNA. As workhorses of the cell, proteins compose structural and motor elements in the cell, and they ...
ZME Science on MSN

AlphaFold mapped the shapes of millions of proteins. Now scientists are using the powerful AI to figure out what they actually do

Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind’s game-changing AI tool, called AlphaFold, has helped researchers all over the ...

New AI model maps the ion binding sites that control how proteins work

Researchers at Constructor University and Constructor Labs have developed BiteNetI, a deep-learning model that locates the ...
Wired

Google DeepMind’s Groundbreaking AI for Protein Structure Can Now Model DNA

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 ...
C&EN

Scientists design proteins that can change their shapes

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 ...
The Scientist

From Symphony to Structure: Listening to Proteins Fold

When a protein folds, its string of amino acids wiggles and jiggles through countless conformations before it forms a fully folded, functional protein. This rapid and complex process is hard to ...