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AI plus gene editing promises to shift biotech into high gear

  • Written by Marc Zimmer, Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College
imageAI knowledge combined with gene-editing precision opens the way to dial-a-protein.KTSFotos/Moment via Getty Images

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true anymore.

Since then,...

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