NOBEL LAUREATE USES AI TO DESIGN UNNATURAL MOLECULES
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David Baker, who won the Nobel Prize for protein design, is now leveraging artificial intelligence to create molecules that don't exist in nature. The shift marks a new frontier in biological engineering.
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