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AlphaFold AI Used to Redesign Gene-Editing Proteins for Enhanced Safety

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Gene-editing therapies have faced safety challenges due to off-target effects, where edits occur at unintended DNA sequences. Researchers have now modified AlphaFold, an AI protein-folding tool, to identify key regions of gene-editing proteins responsible for these errors. By altering those regions, they successfully reduced off-target activity, potentially making gene therapies safer.

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