Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT engineers used a language model to pick yeast-friendly codons, boosting production of six proteins, including trastuzumab.

Industrial yeasts are a powerhouse of protein production, used to manufacture vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and other useful compounds. In a new study, MIT chemical engineers have harnessed artificial ...

Three-letter DNA “words” can decide whether a yeast cell cranks out a medicine efficiently or sputters along. The words are called codons, and they are the genetic code’s way of spelling out amino ...