Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection. For ...

Since its release in 2024, the open-source platform BindCraft, developed at EPFL, has already disrupted the world of protein design. Physical interactions between proteins influence anything from cell ...

A multicolored 3D model of an enzyme binding double-stranded DNA against a light purple background Computational enzyme design could allow for reactions not seen in nature. Credit: Ian Haydon ...

This advancement has wide applications for biomedicine and environmental protection. From growth hormones to cancer drugs, small molecules play a crucial role in our health. Monitoring them is ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday, a team of researchers led by Microsoft announced that they had discovered, and possibly patched, what they’re terming a biological zero-day—an unrecognized security hole in a system that ...

Various approaches to such protein redesign have drawbacks. Traditional methods include time-consuming trial and error efforts, and many models in the emerging field ...

Bioluminescence is the natural chemical process of light creation in some living creatures that makes fireflies flicker and some jellyfish glow. Scientists have long been interested in borrowing the ...