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Virtual lab powered by ‘AI scientists’ super-charges biomedical research


Could human–AI collaborations be the future of interdisciplinary studies?

The system, described in a preprint posted on bioRxiv last month 1, was able to design antibody fragments called nanobodies that can bind to the virus that causes COVID-19, proposing nearly 100 of these structures in a fraction of the time it would take an all-human research group. “These virtual-lab AI agents have shown to be quite capable at doing a lot of tasks,” says study co-author James Zou, a computational biologist at Stanford University in California. Access the most recent journalism from Nature's award-winning team Explore the latest features & opinion covering groundbreaking research

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