DeepMind’s AI used to develop tiny ‘syringe’ for injecting gene therapy and tumor-killing drugs

Researchers used the AI system AlphaFold to develop a tiny “syringe” that can inject proteins into cells.

These proteins, shown here in a microscopy image, can be used like tiny syringes to inject human cells with specific protein “payloads.” (Image credit: Joseph Kreitz, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT)

Scientists have developed a molecular “syringe” that can inject proteins, including cancer-killing drugs and gene therapies, directly into human cells. 

And the researchers did it using an artificial intelligence (AI) program made by Google’s DeepMind. The AI program, called AlphaFold, previously predicted the structure of nearly every protein known to science

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