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AI is designing proteins that could help treat cancer

The proteins supercharge T cells' ability to target and destroy melanoma cells

Melanoma cells (red) crumble and die after being treated with human immune cells genetically engineered to include AI-designed proteins that target cancer.

K.H. Johansen et al./Science 2025

By Meghan Rosen

Using AI, scientists have built a “GPS” for cancer-fighting immune cells.

It’s a molecular navigation system that helped the cells lock onto cancer, kind of like Google Maps guiding travelers to a new address, researchers report July 24 in Science.