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Aditi Merchant

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Jun 23

Because Proto is natively multi-objective, we also co-designed interacting components: synthetic promoter–repressor pairs in E. coli.

Despite not using a DNA-binder-specific model, several repressors were functional and preferentially recognized their target designed promoters,

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Finally, we paired Proto with AI coding agents to specify larger systems, including a diversified signaling cascade and a cancer-targeting circuit design that satisfied complex functional specifications.

Jun 23, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

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