VIBE GENES? NATURAL(ISH) LANGUAGE COMES TO PROTEIN, GENOME DESIGN SOFTWARE

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Researchers based in China have collaborated to create a tool that can take natural language prompts and use them to produce proteins with specified functions. This could enable anyone to design proteins - if they have a lab that can sort the good designs from the failures. The model's success rate is not great, but it can still get the job done. The tool likely won't remove the need for biologists, but it could help accelerate research.