The ability to intelligently design these atomically-precise nanomachines will be an ever-increasing part of our technological development. These proteins are

The ability to intelligently design these atomically-precise nanomachines will be an ever-increasing part of our technological development. These proteins are small enough to fit into the features of a modern processor, with a physical resolution less than a nanometer - wet, warm, and 3D. And nature has already given us a library of what these technologies can do - and now we're even expanding those capabilities for our own purposes. Building new biological sensors, products, and therapies - rewiring and inventing biological I/O are now within reach. If you want to build novel proteins from the other direction - based on linking emeperically validated biological functions rather than trying to calculate function from biochemical principles, check out our system at Serotiny [1]. We're taking a bit of a different approach to protein design - build new proteins by reusing biological components with known functions. And though we help design proteins with new functions, these guys design particular enzymatic pockets or predict particular structures - that's amazing. The Baker lab and all of their colleagues have put so much effort into this goal - I'm eager to see what comes next. [1] https://serotiny.bio/notes/pinecone/ https://serotiny.bio/notes/pinecone/