Customized nanoparticles with complex shapes could help fight disease or transmit information, and the European Research Council is investing approximately $10.1 million in a research team co-led by the University of Michigan to speed up nanoparticle design for these applications. The team is also co-led by the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials-CIC biomaGUNE and the University of Vigo in Spain, as well as the University of Antwerp in Belgium. They aim to design a machine-learning model that can predict which nanoparticle structures will bind to specific biomolecules, such as proteins on the cell walls of pathogens.

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