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Scientists use AI to create completely new anti-venom proteins
'To find something that works in the first attempt, that’s very shocking.'
Plus, they vary in quality as relying on imperfect immune systems yields uneven results, and antivenoms tend to work better against some toxins than others–only partially neutralizing the smallest components of the complex cocktail that is venom, and performing poorly against some species’ bites. In contrast, the newly designed proteins are stable across a much wider range of temperatures, can potentially be produced in bulk using microorganisms like yeast, may prompt fewer side effects, and would be easier to fine tune and keep consistent. They fed this information into the first of their AI tools called RoseTTAFold diffusion, a model similar to image generators like Dall-E and Midjourney, but one trained and specialized to output mock-ups of protein structures in accordance with requested criteria.
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