DeepMind’s new AI designed enzymes from scratch, one made a chemical building block found in many medicines 99× more often than the competing product, while another broke down a plastic pollutant at 90°C where natural enzymes failed
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DeepMind's new AI designed enzymes from scratch, producing one that makes a common pharmaceutical building block 99× more efficiently than the competing process and another that degrades a plastic pollutant at 90°C where natural enzymes fail.
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