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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 1, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
DeepMind Watermarks AI-Designed Proteins Without Measurable Loss of Binding Function
Wet-lab tests against VEGF-A, the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain and PD-L1 found marked designs matched unmarked ones on hit rate and affinity.
Google DeepMind published SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods that embed verifiable signatures into AI-designed protein sequences and predicted three-dimensional structures. The sequence method biases amino acid choices during gen…
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