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Making a “Miracle” HIV Medicine
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Kamal Nahas
Lenacapavir — a long-acting, injectable drug — may be our strongest tool yet to curb HIV, provided it reaches those who need it most.
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Evo 2 Can Design Entire Genomes
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Eryney Marrogi and Niko McCarty
A new AI model for biology, released today by Arc Institute and NVIDIA, can predict which mutations within a gene are likely to be harmful and even design small, eukaryotic genomes.
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AI-Designed Enzymes
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Abhishaike Mahajan & Eryney Marrogi
Researchers at the Institute for Protein Design have made a computationally-designed, multi-step enzyme.
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A Writing Fellowship on Scientific Progress
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Works in Progress and Asimov Press are launching a paid six-month fellowship.
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On Prions and Protein Design
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Eryney Marrogi & Theodore Sternlieb
Prions are extremely resilient, infectious proteins. Studying their shape-shifting abilities could reveal lessons for how proteins fold at a molecular level, helping scientists design better ones.
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A Brief History of the Miracle Bacterium
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Corrado Nai
Serratia marcescens, a pathogen with an uncanny resemblance to blood, has had an outsized influence on modern science.
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Solving the Electroporation Bottleneck
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Metaphors for Biology: Time
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Inventing the Methods Section
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Digital Scents
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