Basecamp Research and P&G partnered to design cold-water laundry enzymes with AI.

Cold-water washing needs enzymes that work at low temperatures to cut the energy used to heat water. Basecamp uses biodiversity data from cold-environment organisms and its AI enzyme design technology to create new enzymes for P&G. The article gives no performance metrics.

Basecamp Research is a London and Boston biology AI company that trains EDEN foundation models on proprietary evolutionary genomic data for therapeutic and enzyme design.

This sits in the Design & Stress-Test stage of the AI use-case lifecycle: Named examples from the tools pharma teams use to scope, prototype and benchmark an AI use case before committing to build it — data-catalog, sandbox and evaluation platforms.