The Foresight Institute steers emerging and world-shaping technologies for beneficial purposes and has done so since 1986. It is our mission to catalyze research across multidisciplinary fields such as nanotechnology, molecular machines, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and longevity science. We serve as a nexus for innovation to advance R&D, reward excellence, restrain recklessness, and create community aimed at the long-term flourishing of humanity and the biosphere.
From de novo protein design to molecular machine systems
A review from the group leading recent rapid progress in de novo protein design describes the successes, identifies the remaining challenges, and heralds the advance "from the Stone Age to the Iron Age" in protein design.