David Baker, Nobel laureate and UW adjunct professor, gave a public lecture discussing the development and applications of ...

Cancer immunotherapy, especially using T cells, is showing a lot of promise in treating blood cancers. Bioengineered T cells, especially those equipped with chimeric antigen receptors (CAR-T cells), ...

Using artificial intelligence (AI), a team of scientists led by Nobel Prize winner David Baker at the University of Washington has created a computational method for generating proteins that bind and ...

Jue Wang (left) is a research scientist and one of the scientific leads of the protein design team at Google DeepMind (London, UK). Before joining DeepMind, Jue was a postdoc with David Baker ...

Using the MProt-DPO framework, scientists created synthetic versions of malate dehydrogenase that preserve the protein’s critical structure and key binding areas. Harnessing the power of artificial ...

New research represents a notable step forward in designing enzymes from scratch. With their approach, the authors designed an enzyme that uses a covalent intermediate to catalyze a two-step reaction, ...

Adam Broerman, a graduate student in the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design, studies an engineered protein that can turn off protein interactions. (IPD Photo / Ian Haydon) The ...

Many of the food industry’s most persistent problems exist not in the realm of business and economics – scaling, costs of materials and the like – but in nature itself. Crops, which the food industry ...