AI-generated conceptual illustration of a robotic pipetting head above a grid of reaction wells, each holding a differently folded glowing protein ribbon
Biotechnology

Making enzymes outside the cell, to feed the machine that designs them

A Fraunhofer team in Potsdam is building a robot platform that produces enzyme variants without living cells, then trains AI on the results. The bottleneck it attacks is real, but the platform is early and the spin-off does not exist yet.