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Lots of news to get to on this beautiful fall day.

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It's Wednesday, October 9th.

A biochemist at the University of Washington has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking work in computational protein design.

And Dornfeld reports.

When David Baker first set out decades ago to use computers to design completely new proteins,

We were actually kind of on the lunatic fringe for many, many years,

and trying to make proteins that could carry out very sophisticated functions just starting completely

from scratch. Today, the Institute for Protein Design is filled with researchers doing exactly that,

doing amino acid origami to build new proteins to hopefully fight cancer, fix carbon and dissolve

microplastics. They've already helped develop a COVID-19 vaccine.

So we're sort of going through the list of the greatest viruses of concern and designing proteins to block them.

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