which DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis calls the “Olympics of protein folding” in a video. During the competition, systems like AlphaFold are given the amino acid strings for proteins with shapes ...

For years, scientists have been struggling with the problem of “protein folding” – mapping the three-dimensional shapes of the proteins that are responsible for diseases from cancer to Covid-19.

To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. A protein folding prediction in response to a small molecule generated by AlphaFold 3. “The response to AlphaFold 2 was more than I could have ever ...

“The breakthrough in protein folding is one of the greatest ever in terms of both the scientific achievement and the enabling of future research,” wrote H. Holden Thorp, a biochemist and the ...