DeepMind's AI designs enzymes from scratch: 99x drug building block yield, plastic-eating at 90°C
141_1337 · reddit · 2026-10-06
DeepMind's new AI designed enzymes from scratch, with one producing a chemical building block found in many medicines 99x more often than the competing product, and another breaking down a plastic pollutant at 90°C where natural enzymes failed — a step beyond protein structure prediction into functional enzyme engineering.
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