/ Proteins Content for UC Davis en /news/federal-grants-support-research-ai-driven-protein-design <p>Two projects at the University of California, Davis, that use artificial intelligence to design and engineer proteins for industrial and health applications have been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).<span>&nbsp;</span></p> September 19, 2025 - 10:26am Andy Fell /news/federal-grants-support-research-ai-driven-protein-design /blog/new-light-activated-technique-track-protein-interactions <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Biomedical engineers at UC Davis have come up with a <a href="https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.261430">new tool for tracing interactions between proteins</a>. The new, light-activated tool could have wide applications in cell biology. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> October 11, 2023 - 10:10am Andy Fell /blog/new-light-activated-technique-track-protein-interactions /news/new-cryo-electron-microscope-powers-biological-sciences-discovery-0 <p>A new era in structural biology is coming to UC Davis, and it is already yielding discoveries.&nbsp;</p> <p>It’s called cryoelectron microscopy, or cryo-EM, and it allows biologists to capture three-dimensional movies of biological molecules down to the scale of single atoms.&nbsp;</p> February 11, 2020 - 5:06pm Andy Fell /news/new-cryo-electron-microscope-powers-biological-sciences-discovery-0