September 8, 2021

AI-Fueled Software Reveals Accurate Protein Structure Prediction

Berkeley Lab researchers helped validate new AI-based algorithm, RosETTAFold, to generate hundreds of new protein structures. “The dream of predicting a protein shape just from its gene sequence is now a reality,” said Paul Adams, Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences at Berkeley Lab. For Adams and other structural biologists who […]
September 7, 2021

Scientists want to use an app to find missing people with dementia

Aging, especially in late life, is not a beautiful process for everyone. For many it causes a lot of suffering, including dementia. While the problems of aging still cannot be solved, scientists are developing tools to make it at least a little bit less painful. Researchers at the University of […]
September 7, 2021

Scientists found that gut should be treated to address rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease, which affects people’s joints, skin, eyes, lungs and some other organs. Usually rheumatoid arthritis is recognizable because of damaged joints, but it is a much more widely reaching autoimmune disease. That is why scientists at UCL are looking into the gut for the origins of […]