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Geoff Brumfiel

New proteins, better batteries: Scientists are using AI to speed up discoveries

AI similar to the kind used to make images is now being used to design synthetic proteins. Scientists say its radically sped up their research. (Ian C Haydon/ UW Institute for Protein Design)

Susana Vazquez-Torres is a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Washington who wants to someday invent new drugs for neglected diseases.

Lately, she's been thinking a lot about snake bites: Around a hundred thousand people die each year from snake bites, according to the World Health Organization — and yet, she says, "the current therapeutics are not safe and are very expensive."

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