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The Virtual Lab of AI agents designs new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies

Kyle Swanson, Wesley Wu, Nash L. Bulaong, John E. Pak, James Zou

Synopsis

Multi-agent LLM "Virtual Lab" (PI agent + scientist agents + Scientific Critic, with human researcher feedback) designs 92 SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies; experimental validation identifies functional binders across variants including JN.1 and KP.3.

Keywords

·Virtual Lab ·multi-agent science ·nanobodies ·SARS-CoV-2 ·AI-human collaboration

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