On the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, in a building just south of Red Square, hundreds of scientists fill an institute solely devoted to engineering molecules. At the core is director David Baker, a biochemist with the School of Medicine who compares the Institute for Protein Design to a giant brain where each of the scientists is an individual neuron.
Late this winter, Baker toured a small group of visitors through a floor of the institute where his own lab is housed. Read more in the link below.