Protein folding×CRISPR
This pair ranks in the top 0.1% of every collision candidate in the corpus. Across held-out years, pairs scoring that well went on to co-publish at 10.0× the base rate, typically within 2 years.
The Frontier Brief for this collision is still being written. The evidence below already reflects the current model run.
Pre-company space. No named players have staked this collision yet — an emerging pairing where the field, not a firm, is the story so far.
10 researchers publish on both sides of this collision without the fields themselves having met. Every name below is counted from papers in the corpus — not inferred.
- Eugene V. KooninMontana State University1/11
- George M. ChurchColumbia University Irving Medical Center1/5
- Sander J. TansDelft University of Technology3/1
- Alexandra East-SeletskyEnergy Biosciences Institute1/1
- Ning GaoState Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics1/1
- Guilhem FaureNational Institutes of Health1/1
- Hemali PhatnaniData Tecnica International (United States)1/1
- Howard M. SalisPennsylvania State University1/1
- Heather P. HardingThe Gurdon Institute1/1
- Brian HieMeta (United States)1/1
- Harvard UniversityUS61/191
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUS53/185
- University of California, San FranciscoUS52/98
- Stanford UniversityUS30/114
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUS25/136
- University of TorontoCA40/68
- Thermo‐triggered Release of CRISPR‐Cas9 System by Lipid‐Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles for Tumor Therapy2017 · 408 citations · DOI ↗2
- Amyloid-type Protein Aggregation and Prion-like Properties of Amyloids2021 · 230 citations · DOI ↗2
- Design of coiled-coil protein-origami cages that self-assemble in vitro and in vivo2017 · 190 citations · DOI ↗2
- Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network2021 · 5,853 citations · DOI ↗1
Counted from the corpus. Institution counts use best-effort affiliation (every author on a paper is paired with every institution on it), so read them as presence, not headcount.
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