Meta's newest AI determines proper protein folds 60 times fasterIt's 'Mad Libs' for O-Chem.By A. Tarantola, 11.01.2022
DeepMind's AI has now catalogued every protein known to scienceAll roughly 200 million of them.By A. Tarantola, 07.29.2022
AI discovery could advance the treatment of spinal cord injuriesThe technology could eliminate scar tissue that prevents recovery.By J. Fingas, 03.07.2022
DeepMind's latest AI breakthrough can accurately predict the way proteins foldBut what does that mean for the rest of us?By C. Velazco, 11.30.2020
400,000 new people have joined Folding@Home's fight against COVID-19The quest to thwart the virus has strong help from distributed computing.By J. Fingas, 03.23.2020
Get ready to eat bugs if you want to live beyond 2050Beef won't be what's for dinner much longer.By A. Tarantola, 01.28.2020
‘EVE Online’ crowdsourced science data will soon be publicly availableThe information will be fed into the open-to-all Human Protein Atlas database. By D. Lumb, 08.23.2018
Scientists want to create animal feed out of light and electricityFinnish researchers may be able to produce single-cell proteins anywhere there's renewable energy.By S. Krishna, 07.31.2017
Extremely detailed images of living cells can now be taken over timeThe new method allows for nanoscale views for tens of minutes at a time.By M. Locklear, 07.05.2017
HIV breakthrough may help scientists kill sleeping virus cellsA "biomarker" protein hangs out on T-cells where the virus hides from treatment. By S. Dent, 03.20.2017
Researchers design sensors that can detect single protein moleculesThe system could lead to new breakthroughs in biopharmaceuticals.By A. Dalton, 01.25.2017
Protein fingerprinting could shed light on Alzheimer'sAs well as on Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases.By M. Moon, 01.18.2017
Gamers beat scientists to making a protein discoveryIt's proof that crowdsourced science can solve problems quickly.By J. Fingas, 09.19.2016
Police could soon identify you by your hair proteinsThey could be more useful than DNA for some forensics.By J. Fingas, 09.12.2016
Sea anemones could be the key to treating hearing lossTheir proteins can repair hearing-related cells in other animals.By J. Fingas, 08.15.2016
Scientists want to make buildings from boneLess 'Mortal Kombat' hellscape, more carbon emission-reducing material of the future.By M. Smith, 06.27.2016
See the unusual way cancer cells spreadScientists have discovered that cancer's surface proteins help it survive and move around the body.By J. Fingas, 06.26.2016
'EVE Online' now rewards you for helping scienceProject Discovery is live in the epic online space game.By J. Fingas, 03.09.2016
Mini bioreactor makes life-saving drugs in the fieldYou wouldn't need to wait for the hospital to get vital medicine.By J. Fingas, 12.30.2015
The prose at the end of the universeProgramming 'indestructible' bacteria to write poetry.By A. Souppouris, 12.30.2015