Nobel laureate David Baker leads AI BioDesign project to create molecules not found in nature

The Allen Institute, University of Washington, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center launched AI BioDesign, led by 2024 Nobel chemistry laureate David Baker. The project uses AI and lab experiments to design molecules and biological functions not found in nature, aiming to create databases and models for future cancer and neurodegenerative disease drugs and enzymes for plastic degradation.

• Project led by Allen Institute, UW, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
• Scientific lead is David Baker, 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Goals: cancer drugs and enzymes for plastic degradation
• Baker proposes logging all synthesized synthetic DNA