Google DeepMind watermarks AI-designed proteins, and the first binders still bind

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Google DeepMind has taken its SynthID watermark into biology, and says the first watermarked protein binders still bind. In wet-lab testing against three target proteins, VEGF-A, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein RBD and PD-L1, the watermarked designs “matched the hit rate, binding affinity, and natural…