11-30-2020, 11:59 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55133972
One of biology's biggest mysteries has been solved using artificial intelligence, experts have announced.
Predicting how a protein folds into a unique three-dimensional shape has puzzled scientists for half a century.
London-based AI lab, DeepMind, has largely cracked the problem, say the organisers of a scientific challenge.
A better understanding of protein shapes could play a pivotal role in the development of novel drugs to treat disease.
The advance by DeepMind is expected to accelerate research into a host of illnesses, including Covid-19.
Impressive stuff - and it sounds very useful .
This will surely help us to develop all kinds of new drugs - but I'm also curious as to how our understanding of these shapes could be re-applied, outside biology altogether!
One of biology's biggest mysteries has been solved using artificial intelligence, experts have announced.
Predicting how a protein folds into a unique three-dimensional shape has puzzled scientists for half a century.
London-based AI lab, DeepMind, has largely cracked the problem, say the organisers of a scientific challenge.
A better understanding of protein shapes could play a pivotal role in the development of novel drugs to treat disease.
The advance by DeepMind is expected to accelerate research into a host of illnesses, including Covid-19.
Impressive stuff - and it sounds very useful .
This will surely help us to develop all kinds of new drugs - but I'm also curious as to how our understanding of these shapes could be re-applied, outside biology altogether!
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