Team behind AI program AlphaFold win Lasker science prize
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#6EYRC)
Award for work on shapes of proteins raises prospect of AI research earning a Nobel for first time
Researchers behind Google DeepMind's AlphaFold program have landed one of the most prestigious prizes in science for solving a grand challenge in biology that stood for half a century.
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, who led the development of AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence program, share the $250,000 Lasker basic medical research award for their revolutionary technology" to predict the 3D shapes of proteins.
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