This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 7)

A Molecule Designed by AI Exhibits'Druglike' Qualities Gregory Barber Wired "Lots of people are designing machine learning pipelines to produce virtual molecules, but relatively few have published research validating the work in the lab. Insilico's work takes an extra step forward, AlQuraishi adds, in showing that its AI can be tailored to generate molecules that not only bind to a particular target, but behave well in cells and animals." Biohackers Are Pirating a Cheaper Version of a Million-Dollar Gene Therapy Alex Pearlman MIT Technology Review "i'This was developed in a shed in Mississippi, a warehouse in Florida, a bedroom in Indiana, and on a computer in Austria,' says Gabriel Licina, a biohacker based in South Bend, Indiana. He says the prototype gene therapy cost less than $7,000 to create." Soft Self-Healing Materials for Robots That Cannot Be Destroyed Evan Ackerman IEEE Spectrum "…fixing things involves a human first identifying when they're broken, and then performing a potentially skill, labor, time, and money intensive task. SHERO's soft materials will, eventually, make this entire process autonomous, allowing robots to self-identify damage and initiate healing on their own."