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DARPA Launches Program to Pioneer Next-Generation Protein Sequencing for National Security and Biotechnology
February 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued the following news:

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Turning proteins into PROSE

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The ability to rapidly detect and identify unknown proteins remains a critical gap for a number of areas, such as healthcare, biotechnology, and national security. Existing tools can characterize proteins with known sequences, but they struggle to read long, chemically complex, and modified proteins, including toxi . . .

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