Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software

A Chinese research collaboration created protein design software accepting natural language prompts to generate functional proteins, democratizing a field that previously required deep knowledge of enzyme mechanisms and protein structure. Separately, Hugging Face announced hosting a comparable tool for DNA-level design. While success rates vary and lab validation remains necessary, these tools make protein and genome design more accessible to researchers without specialized structural expertise.

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