SMRTR Science & EngineeringDec 15, 2025Daily.dev

3 Questions: Using computation to study the world’s best single-celled chemists

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MIT's Yunha Hwang uses computational genomic language models to study Earth's trillion microbial species, most of which can't be grown in laboratories. Her AI approach treats DNA like human language to decode the biology of extreme-environment microbes, potentially unlocking new sustainable materials and therapeutics while improving climate modeling.

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