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Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins

The AI design tools produced proteins able to break chemical bonds that stay stable for hundreds of years; scissors, but for molecules.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorArs Technica reported on October fourteenth, twenty twenty-six, that researchers used AI design tools to make proteins that cut up other proteins.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe bonds they break are stable for hundreds of years. These are the group chat of chemistry, and nobody leaves.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo it's tiny scissors that a computer designed.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentScissors for stuff that outlives your whole family. I'd ask it to cut my screen time, but it only works on things that are stable.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYour screen time is not stable. It's a medical event.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHashtag scissorhands.

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