On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of ...

AlphaFold didn't accelerate biology by running faster experiments. It changed the engineering assumptions behind protein ...

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This article is based on a poster originally authored by Peter Hsueh, Lili Qin, Jane Liu and Wenlin Ren. Target proteins are central to the antibody discovery process. These reagents play a critical ...

Viruses possess a formidable ability to enter our cells to multiply there, thus triggering diseases. However, a team from ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Pranam Chatterjee, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), emphasizes that text is all you need for artificial intelligence (AI) models to effectively ...

Designing drugs is a bit like playing with Polly Pocket. The vintage toy is a plastic clam shell that contains a multi-bedroom house, a skating rink, a disco dance floor, and other fun scenarios. Kids ...

Antibody-based therapies are used to treat numerous diseases, from cancer to rheumatic disorders and multiple sclerosis.