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Light-guided evolution creates proteins that can switch, sense, and compute
Evolution is nature's way of engineering biological systems. To build their system, the researchers used the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an organism widely used both in brewing and scientific research. The researchers generated 19 new variants that showed greater sensitivity to light, reduced activity in darkness, or the ability to respond to green light rather than only blue light.
