MIT’s FrameDiff Generative AI imagines new protein structures that could transform medicine

Generative AI imagines new protein structures

The FrameDiff system has been tested on the task of building single proteins and researchers have found that it can create large proteins with up to 500 parts. Unlike previous methods, it does not need to rely on a pre-existing map of protein structure. Credit: Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL via Midjourney

Antisense therapy restores fragile X protein production in human cells

Joel D. Richter, PhD, and Sneha Shah, PhD

image: Joel D. Richter, PhD, and Sneha Shah, PhD visualization Moreover Credit: UMass Chan Medical School An antisense therapy developed by Joel D. Richter, PhD, Sneha Shah, PhD, and Jonathan K. Watts, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School and Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD, at RUSH University Medical Center, restores production of the FMRP protein in … Read more

Vanderbilt investigators secure a grant from the Keck Foundation for groundbreaking genetic research

Vanderbilt investigators secure a grant from the Keck Foundation for groundbreaking genetic research

Charles Sanders, PhD by Herschel Pollard Vanderbilt University scientists Charles Sanders, PhD, and Roy Zent, ​​MD, PhD, received a $1.2 million award from the WM Keck Foundation for their groundbreaking project, Genetic Intolerance Patterns as a Treasure Map to Genes that Define Us as Human. This groundbreaking project led by Professors Sanders and Zent underscores … Read more