{"id":188719,"date":"2024-05-05T14:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/from-theory-to-therapy-mits-computational-breakthrough-in-protein-optimization"},"modified":"2024-05-05T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T19:24:03","slug":"from-theory-to-therapy-mits-computational-breakthrough-in-protein-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/from-theory-to-therapy-mits-computational-breakthrough-in-protein-optimization","title":{"rendered":"From Theory to Therapy: MIT\u2019s Computational Breakthrough in Protein Optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-theory-to-therapy-mits-computational-breakthrough-in-protein-optimization.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have developed a computational approach that makes it easier to predict mutations that will lead to optimized proteins, based on a relatively small amount of data. Credit: MIT News; iStock.<\/p>\n<p><strong> MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To engineer proteins with useful functions, researchers usually begin with a natural protein that has a desirable function, such as emitting fluorescent light, and put it through many rounds of random mutation that eventually generate an optimized version of the protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers have developed a computational approach that makes it easier to predict mutations that will lead to optimized proteins, based on a relatively small amount of data. Credit: MIT News; iStock. MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain. To engineer proteins with useful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188719","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}