“There are two new ‘venom AI’ papers out, and both are interesting for different reasons.

The first paper, published in Nature and already covered by Derek Lowe in his blog, uses RFdiffusion — a computational protein design tool — to make proteins capable of neutralizing a wide range of lethal snake toxins.

The second paper, a preprint posted on bioRxiv, does this almost in reverse; instead of using AI to discover proteins that neutralize venoms, it instead uses AI to sift through millions of venom proteins to find those capable of killing drug-resistant bacteria.”

From The New Biology.