{"id":244362,"date":"2026-09-22T05:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ai-finds-hidden-human-proteins-and-their-function"},"modified":"2026-09-22T05:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:09:33","slug":"ai-finds-hidden-human-proteins-and-their-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/ai-finds-hidden-human-proteins-and-their-function","title":{"rendered":"AI finds hidden human proteins and their function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-finds-hidden-human-proteins-and-their-function2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research shows how artificial intelligence, combined with advanced experimental science, can help find \u201chidden\u201d and unexplored proteins in the human body and reveal what they actually do, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-10993-8\">new study<\/a> published in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery suggests a new way to study how cells communicate, survive stress and possibly support disease.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers used AI to compare the shapes of more than 214 million predicted proteins. Instead of looking only at genetic sequence, they searched by three-dimensional form and found hidden members of the G protein-coupled receptor, or GPCR, family, a group that helps cells sense and respond to extracellular signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research shows how artificial intelligence, combined with advanced experimental science, can help find \u201chidden\u201d and unexplored proteins in the human body and reveal what they actually do, according to a new study published in Nature. The discovery suggests a new way to study how cells communicate, survive stress and possibly support disease. Researchers used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244362","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}