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The art of protein design with AI
Watch now | Scientists are using AI to hallucinate entirely novel proteins that could transform medicine, agriculture, and materials science
What makes Joel Mokyr great
His Nobel is a triumph for history and the importance of ideas
Chinese dams hold billions of people to ransom
Could desalination make them irrelevant?
What's new in biology: October 2025
Safer transplants, new antibiotics, the rise of paper mills, long-term flu protection, slowing down ageing, and more.
Hacking proteins with AI
AlphaFold, ProteinMPNN and other tools are transforming drug design, but how do they work, and can we use them to create a strep A vaccine for the very first time?