Skip to contentNewsArtificial IntelligenceAI is helping scientists decode previously inscrutable proteinsThe tools could help uncover better cancer treatments, illuminate rare diseases and more New AI tools to detect and describe previously undiscovered proteins have the potential to improve disease treatments and boost our basic biological knowledge.Annekatrine Kirketerp-MlleBy Lauren Leffer37 seconds agoGenerative artificial intelligence has entered a new frontier of fundamental biology: helping scientists to better understand proteins, the workhorses of living cells.Scientists have developed two new AI tools to decipher proteins often missed by existing detection methods, researchers report March 31 in Nature Machine Intelligence. Uncovering these unknown proteins in all types of biological samples could be key to creating better cancer treatments, improving doctors understanding of diseases, and discovering mechanisms behind unexplained animal abilities.