{"id":142621,"date":"2022-07-21T18:23:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T23:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/biologists-train-ai-to-generate-medicines-and-vaccines"},"modified":"2022-07-21T18:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T23:23:59","slug":"biologists-train-ai-to-generate-medicines-and-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/biologists-train-ai-to-generate-medicines-and-vaccines","title":{"rendered":"Biologists train AI to generate medicines and vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biologists-train-ai-to-generate-medicines-and-vaccines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed artificial intelligence software that can create proteins that may be useful as vaccines, cancer treatments, or even tools for pulling carbon pollution out of the air.<\/p>\n<p>This research, reported today in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, was led by the University of Washington School of Medicine and Harvard University. The article is titled \u201cScaffolding <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> functional sites using deep learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proteins we find in nature are amazing molecules, but designed proteins can do so much more,\u201d said senior author David Baker, an HHMI Investigator and professor of biochemistry at UW Medicine. \u201cIn this work, we show that machine learning can be used to design proteins with a wide variety of functions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed artificial intelligence software that can create proteins that may be useful as vaccines, cancer treatments, or even tools for pulling carbon pollution out of the air. This research, reported today in the journal Science, was led by the University of Washington School of Medicine and Harvard University. The article is titled \u201cScaffolding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}