David Baker, Nobel laureate and UW adjunct professor, gave a public lecture discussing the development and applications of ...

With the advent of AI-powered protein design tools, protein-based therapeutics may no longer be constrained by the limits imposed by natural selection. Protein-based therapeutics have been ...

Proteins are biology’s molecular machines. They’re our bodies’ construction workers—making muscle, bone, and brain; regulators—keeping systems in check; and local internet—responsible for 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 ...

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 ...

A research team reports that advances in protein design—especially when combined with artificial intelligence—are rapidly ...

Biophysicists have elucidated why unexpected structures can sometimes arise during protein design. Artificially designed proteins are usually based on building blocks that obey strict rules of ...

Researchers from David Baker's lab (University of Washington) have designed this antibody from scratch to neutralize a deadly toxin from C. difficile. [Ian Haydon] “Life could not exist without ...

Two projects at the University of California, Davis, that use artificial intelligence to design and engineer proteins for industrial and health applications have been funded by the U.S. National ...