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Alces Bioworks, Inc.
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Alces Bioworks uses revolutionary protein design technologies to create superior affinity reagents for its customers. Affinity reagents made better and faster. https://www.alcesbioworks.com
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Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) @pdbeurope.bsky.social · 10d
AlphaFold DB v6 (synced with UniProt 2025_03) is live! Here are the details:
Totals v4 → v6: 241,070,489 entries.
Since v4: +65,711,653 added, 39,324,993 removed, 276,539 changed (in sequence), 175,082,297 unchanged (metadata refresh, relabelled v6). Details 👇
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10d
Scientists have designed an interleukin-21 mimic with increased stability and capacity to induce more potent antitumor activity than the native protein, which could inform improved #immunotherapies.

Learn more in #ScienceImmunology: https://scim.ag/47jQLSW
Design of a potent interleukin-21 mimic for cancer immunotherapy
A de novo IL-21 mimic, 21h10, exhibits improved stability and potent antitumor activity in vivo compared with native IL-21.
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Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club @bpdmc.org · 14d
Join us in Room 181, Building 68 @mit.edu on October 22nd 2025 @ 7pm EDT to see @grocklin.bsky.social present a mind blowing amount of data and learn what becomes possible at this scale

"Predicting protein folding stability and aggregation propensity using large-scale experiments"

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introduction and membership Boston Protein Design and Modeling Club (BPDMC) is a community of computational protein engineers and modelers from both academia and industry. While we are based in Boston...
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Nature @nature.com · 14d
Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available

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Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · 14d
Nabla expects first-in-human data from its AI-designed molecules within one to two years, according to Reuters.
cenmag.bsky.social C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 14d
Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Nabla Bio, a start-up focused on designing de novo proteins with artificial intelligence, have signed a second round of collaboration.
cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
AI-based protein discovery start-up strikes a second deal with Takeda
Nabla Bio's platform is becoming popular with big pharma companies
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14d
On course to end new HIV cases in the UK by 2030.
First injection to stop HIV approved
The shot, given six times a year or every other month, is an alternative to taking daily pills to protect against ever catching the virus.
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Kathrin Lang @klanglab.bsky.social · 15d
🚨Our paper is out! 🥳
Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for efficient genetic code expansion.
Many congrats to everyone involved - a multi-year effort led by @taruniype.bsky.social @maxfottner.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

it all started years ago with a failed experiment
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Hijacking a bacterial ABC transporter for genetic code expansion - Nature
Bacterial ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters can be utilized and engineered to transport non-canonical amino acids into Escherichia coli for highly efficient synthesis of proteins with novel func...
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Sep 26
A new blog post on our website: how to measure binding affinity of an Alcein!

alcesbioworks.com/how-we-measu...
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Science Magazine @science.org · Sep 22
At the Berlin node of a global hackathon, teams raced to develop artificial intelligence tools to accelerate the design of drugs and materials. https://scim.ag/3VuZyvR
Researchers customize AI tools at global ‘hackathon’
More than 1200 scientists and developers explore how large language models can be applied to materials science and chemistry
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Sep 22
Nvidia to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI on.ft.com/4mxtu5N
Nvidia to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI
Partnership will support massive build-out of data centres for artificial intelligence
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · Sep 15
Always nice to see a moose while out in the woods. Also a note that wildlife photographers have long lenses that make subjects look much closer than they are. Always wise to give moose a lot of space! #wildlife #moose
A bull moose with a nice set of antlers seen in the woods.
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Sep 5
New review on AI and protein design...

Code to complex: AI-driven de novo binder design: Structure www.cell.com/structure/fu...
Code to complex: AI-driven de novo binder design
In this review, Fox et al. discuss how artificial intelligence has transformed our ability to design new-to-nature proteins that bind target proteins with high affinity and specificity. The authors de...
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Sep 5
New review on AI and protein design...

Code to complex: AI-driven de novo binder design: Structure www.cell.com/structure/fu...
Code to complex: AI-driven de novo binder design
In this review, Fox et al. discuss how artificial intelligence has transformed our ability to design new-to-nature proteins that bind target proteins with high affinity and specificity. The authors de...
www.cell.com
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Aug 20
We’re thrilled to announce that Alces Bioworks has joined the NVIDIA Inception program!

This supports our mission to create for our customers superior affinity reagents we call Alceins™.

#NVIDIAInception #AI #BiotechInnovation
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Aug 20
We’re thrilled to announce that Alces Bioworks has joined the NVIDIA Inception program!

This supports our mission to create for our customers superior affinity reagents we call Alceins™.

#NVIDIAInception #AI #BiotechInnovation
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Jul 22
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DeepMind and OpenAI achieve IMO Gold. What does it all mean?
What we know, what we would like to know, and what it may take years to know
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Jul 7
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AI is helping to design proteins from scratch
They could treat diseases, test drugs and boost crop yields
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Jun 27
Alces Bioworks is happy to announce its new website! 🎉

www.alcesbioworks.com 🫎

Check it out and let us know what you think. 🧑‍🔬

If you need a new affinity reagent🧪, we are more than happy to take your order.
Al the lab moose - Alces Bioworks, Inc. (C) 2025
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Jun 17
Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The antibodies don’t work! The race to rid labs of molecules that ruin experiments
Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this.
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Alces Bioworks, Inc. @alcesbioworks.bsky.social · Jun 17
A recent review of protein design by Zhang et al., 2025.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Artificial intelligence methods for protein folding and design
Machine learning has revolutionized protein structure prediction and design. This review discusses current methods for protein folding and inverse fol…
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