AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of ...

AlphaFold didn't accelerate biology by running faster experiments. It changed the engineering assumptions behind protein ...

Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind’s game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins. For nearly a decade, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the scientific landscape, offering fantastic solutions to some of the most pressing global challenges. From combating climate change to transforming ...

Scientists organize millions of proteins by shape, as predicted by AI, revealing 700,000 new families and some shapes unique ...

The DeepMind researchers Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The pair were recognized for their work on protein-structure prediction. In 2020, DeepMind ...

Three scientists were named winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their innovations in the fields of computational protein design and structure prediction. One half of the prize was awarded ...

John Jumper (S.M. ’12, Ph.D. ’17) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024 for his contributions to the development of AlphaFold, an AI model that revolutionized protein structure prediction.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A trio of scientists consisting of Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of ...

In 2020, news headlines repeated John Moult’s words at the end of a stunning competition: Artificial intelligence had “solved” a long-standing grand challenge in biology, protein structure prediction.