Model automates molecule design to speed drug development: Machine-learning model could help chemists make molecules with higher potencies, much more quickly.

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Designing new molecules for pharmaceuticals is primarily a manual, time-consuming process that’s prone to error. But MIT researchers have now

Profiling the genome hundreds of variations at a time: A CRISPR-Cas9 high-throughput strategy creates the possibility to rapidly profile and identify genes and DNA sequence variations key to different traits and diseases

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Geneticists have been using model organisms ranging from the house mouse to the single-cell bakers’ yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to study

‘Scaffolding’ method allows biochemists to see proteins in remarkable detail: Technique that uses cryo-electron microscopy should help scientists better understand disease-causing proteins

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UCLA biochemists have achieved a first in biology: viewing at near-atomic detail the smallest protein ever seen by the technique