Silicon Republic October 4, 2024
Prof Marc Zimmer from Connecticut College says rapid advances in AI and genetic engineering could soon lead to ‘bespoke proteins’ to help tackle the climate crisis.
During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true anymore.
Since then, science and technology have progressed so much that artificial intelligence (AI) has learned to compose DNA, and with genetically modified bacteria, scientists are on their way to designing and making bespoke proteins.
The goal is that with AI’s designing talents and gene-editing’s engineering abilities, scientists can modify bacteria to act as mini factories producing new proteins that...
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