Engineering life's building blocks to solve humanity's biggest challenges
In short: What happens when we stop discovering proteins and start designing them? David Baker explains how creating entirely new molecular machines from scratch can address five of our most pressing global problems.
Proteins are the molecular machines of life, responsible for everything from digestion to immune responses. By using computer-based methods, David Baker and his team at the Institute for Protein Design can now create novel proteins with functions never seen in nature.
This breakthrough in computational protein design allows for the development of a vast diversity of new proteins. These custom-made molecules have the potential to revolutionize medicine through new drugs and vaccines, as well as create advanced materials and sensors.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins | David Baker
- Also: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
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