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This news is so shocking I created an account here after lurking for like a decade. I've yet to read the paper itself but if this is legitimate and not "New bat
by LostFutures 4y ago
This news is so shocking I created an account here after lurking for like a decade. I've yet to read the paper itself but if this is legitimate and not "New battery chemistry is 1000x better!!" type clickbait then holy shit. I'm surprised the article doesn't mention nanotechnology. The potential applications of this are insane and go well beyond medicine.
- fartsucker69 4y agodoesn't the article say that the proteins they dreamed up didn't work
- ac29 4y agoThe lab created a protein based Covid vaccine that works and was approved a few months ago: https://www.ipd.uw.edu/2022/06/covid-19-vaccine-skycovione-wins-full-approval-abroad/ https://www.ipd.uw.edu/2022/06/covid-19-vaccine-skycovione-w...
- LostFutures 4y agoTwo attempts. The first failed, the second succeeded. >When Baker and his team applied this second network to their hallucinated protein nanoparticles, it had much greater success making the molecules experimentally. The researchers determined the structure of 30 of their new proteins using cryo-electron microscopy and other experimental techniques, and 27 of them matched the AI-led designs2. The team’s creations included giant rings with complex symmetries, unlike anything found in nature. In theory, the approach could be used to design nanoparticles corresponding to almost any symmetric shape, says Lukas Milles, a biophysicist who co-led the effort. “It is electrifying to see what these networks can do.