Artificial Intelligence
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Horses versus computers. A duel over snake antivenom
For 130 years, snake antivenom has been produced in horses' veins. Nobel laureate David Baker's team has designed a protein that does it better — no refrigeration, no horse, and 100% survival of mice after a lethal dose of venom.
The computer that lies. It designed a real crystal
ChatGPT invents court rulings that cost a lawyer a fine. The same mechanism — hallucination — designed a crystal that existed in no database on Earth. Then chemists synthesized it. This is the paradox of generative AI in materials design.
42 times better in 24 hours. Anatomy of an enzyme design machine
The ML-driven cell-free expression platform shortens enzyme engineering from months to 24 hours. Michael Jewett's (Northwestern/Stanford) team achieved a 42-fold improvement in catalytic activity using simple ridge regression instead of deep neural networks. Nature Communications 2025.
AI versus superbugs. 40 peptides, 25 hits
Yeji Wang's team from Shandong University used a diffusion model to generate 40 new antimicrobial peptides from scratch. 25 worked. Two have been tested on mice. AI has just solved the most expensive step in antibiotic discovery.
One robot instead of a laboratory. The AI chemist just got a job
The first fully autonomous, multi-agent AI chemist completed six real-world wet experiments, from MOF network synthesis to Suzuki reaction optimization. Llama-3.1-70B on-premises, no cloud.
A biosensor that learns from you
Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) with neural networks enable biosensors that adapt to the user. Shape memory materials respond to physiological changes in real time. Polish potential: polymer chemistry institutes.
A protein designer who doesn't wait for evolution
How the MULTI-evolve algorithm combining protein language models (ESM-2) with synthetic biology shortens enzyme design from months to 2 weeks. Vincent Tran, Arc Institute, Science 2026. Polish potential: Ryvu, Molecure, NCBR.