Researcher Yan Zeng looks over the machinery at the A-Lab, a fully automated laboratory at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab Stephan Noack’s official title is bioprocess engineer. In simple terms, he is a problem-solver. His colleagues at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany knock on his office door armed with […]
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AlphaFold3 can predict the structures of proteins as they interact with DNA.Credit: Werel et al./American Society for MicrobiologyMol*, RCSB PDB AlphaFold3 is open at last. Six months after Google DeepMind controversially withheld code from a paper describing the protein-structure prediction model, scientists can now download the software code and use the artificial intelligence (AI) tool […]
Organic molecules, which contain carbon (pictured), form certain shapes because of how their atoms bond.Credit: Dennis Kunkel Microscopy/Science Photo Library For the first time, chemists have made a class of molecules previously thought too unstable to exist, and used them to generate exotic compounds1. Scientists say these notorious molecules, known as anti-Bredt olefins (ABOs), offer […]
Crystals of insulin. A new kind of insulin can modify its activity in response to glucose levels in the blood.Credit: Antonio Romero/Science Photo Library Scientists have designed a new form of insulin that can automatically switch itself on and off depending on glucose levels in the blood. In animals, this ‘smart’ insulin1 reduced high blood-sugar […]
