STAT November 5, 2024
These startups aim to develop antibodies, enzymes, and gene-editing systems — more quickly and perhaps in ways nature itself hasn’t figured out how to do
When this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry went to three scientists for their work in protein structure prediction and design, the decision was indicative of a zeitgeist in biotech.
“[A] dream of scientists has been to build new proteins, to learn how to use nature’s multitool for our own purposes … opening endless possibilities for the greatest...