{"id":146492,"date":"2022-09-16T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-are-using-ai-to-dream-up-revolutionary-new-proteins"},"modified":"2022-09-16T01:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T06:23:40","slug":"scientists-are-using-ai-to-dream-up-revolutionary-new-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-are-using-ai-to-dream-up-revolutionary-new-proteins","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are using AI to dream up revolutionary new proteins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-using-ai-to-dream-up-revolutionary-new-proteins3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In June, South Korean regulators authorized the first-ever medicine, a COVID vaccine, to be made from a novel protein designed by humans. The vaccine is based on a spherical protein \u2018nanoparticle\u2019 that was created by researchers nearly a decade ago, through a labour-intensive trial-and error-process<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-02947-7#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to gargantuan advances in artificial intelligence (AI), a team led by David Baker, a biochemist at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, reports in <i>Science<\/i><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-02947-7#ref-CR2\">2<\/a><\/sup><sup>,<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-02947-7#ref-CR3\">3<\/a><\/sup> that it can design such molecules in seconds instead of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, South Korean regulators authorized the first-ever medicine, a COVID vaccine, to be made from a novel protein designed by humans. The vaccine is based on a spherical protein \u2018nanoparticle\u2019 that was created by researchers nearly a decade ago, through a labour-intensive trial-and error-process1. Now, thanks to gargantuan advances in artificial intelligence (AI), a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146492","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}