AlphaFold - Google DeepMind

By solving a decades-old scientific challenge, our AI system is helping to solve crucial problems like treatments for disease or breaking down single-use plastics. One day, it might even help unlock the mysteries of how life itself works. Inside every cell in your body, billions of tiny molecular machines called proteins are hard at work. They allow your eyes to detect light, your neurons to fire, and the unique ‘instructions’ in your DNA to be read. Think of them as the building blocks of life. Watch Currently, there are over 200 million known proteins, with many more found every year. Each one has a unique 3D shape determining how it works and what it does. But figuring out the exact structure of a protein can sometimes take years and hundreds of thousands of dollars, meaning scientists were only able to study a tiny fraction of them. This slowed down research to tackle disease and find new medicines. If you could unravel a protein you would see that it’s like a string of beads made

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