{"id":151083,"date":"2022-11-25T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/ai-tailors-artificial-dna-for-future-drug-development"},"modified":"2022-11-25T12:24:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:24:39","slug":"ai-tailors-artificial-dna-for-future-drug-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/ai-tailors-artificial-dna-for-future-drug-development","title":{"rendered":"AI tailors artificial DNA for future drug development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-tailors-artificial-dna-for-future-drug-development2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the help of an AI, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in designing synthetic DNA that controls the cells\u2019 protein production. The technology can contribute to the development and production of vaccines, drugs for severe diseases, as well as alternative food proteins much faster and at significantly lower costs than today.<\/p>\n<p>How genes are expressed is a process that is fundamental to the functionality of cells in all living organisms. Simply put, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genetic+code\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genetic code<\/a> in DNA is transcribed to the molecule messenger RNA (mRNA), which tells the cell\u2019s factory which <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> to produce and in which quantities.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have put a lot of effort into trying to control gene expression because, among other things, it can contribute to the development of protein-based drugs. A recent example is the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, which instructed the body\u2019s cells to produce the same protein found on the surface of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of an AI, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in designing synthetic DNA that controls the cells\u2019 protein production. The technology can contribute to the development and production of vaccines, drugs for severe diseases, as well as alternative food proteins much faster and at significantly lower costs than today. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,1506,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151083","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=151083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}