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AI model reconstructs molecules from Coulomb explosion fragments

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have built a generative AI model that ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

Controlling the Shape of Chiral Molecules

Common in nature and found in DNA and amino acids, chiral molecules are asymmetric with a structure that’s different from its mirror image. Chiral amino acids are “left-handed” and cannot be swapped ...
SpaceNews

Lasers coax large molecules to change their shape

Lasers are used to carry out functions ranging from reading a bar code label at the grocery store to shooting down enemy missiles in space. Now, chemists at Purdue University are using lasers to coax ...
The New York Times

A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come

DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one made by humans, promising a boon for medicine and drug design. By Cade Metz For some years now John McGeehan, a biologist and ...
MIT Technology Review

Material That Sorts Molecules by Shape Could Lower the Price of Gas

A new material that sorts hydrocarbon molecules by shape could lower the cost of gasoline and also make the fuel safer by reducing the need for certain additives that have been linked to cancer, ...