DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding
by Ian Sample Science editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#5B1HE)
Program solves scientific problem in stunning advance' for understanding machinery of life
Having risen to fame on its superhuman performance at playing games, the artificial intelligence group DeepMind has cracked a serious scientific problem that has stumped researchers for half a century.
With its latest AI program, AlphaFold, the company and research laboratory showed it can predict how proteins fold into 3D shapes, a fiendishly complex process that is fundamental to understanding the biological machinery of life.
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