AI-guided analysis assigns amino acid-level roles in protein design

With a newly developed method that compares AI-generated protein sequences with naturally occurring ones, function- and ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

A Holy Grail — The Prediction of Protein Structure

This year’s Lasker Basic Medical Research Award recognizes the contributions of Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their invention of the AlphaFold artificial intelligence (AI) system, which predicts ...
NPR

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on proteins

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their breakthrough work predicting and designing the structure of proteins, the ...
STAT

2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry: Three scientists win for groundbreaking work in proteins

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. LONDON — A trio of scientists who opened new doors in our understanding ...
Nanowerk

Protein: The Building Blocks of Life

Proteins are essential macromolecules that play a crucial role in virtually all biological processes. They are the building blocks of life, performing a wide range of functions within organisms, from ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein known to science

And it’s giving the data away for free, which could spur new scientific discoveries. DeepMind says its AlphaFold tool has successfully predicted the structure of nearly all proteins known to science.
News Medical

Scientists unveil dynamic structure of protein key to vision

Scientists have for the first time looked deep into the protein structure that may determine our vision - and discovered that it is much more dynamic than previously thought. RBP3 not only changes its ...