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While there is no Nobel Prize for AI, Jumper and Hassabis may be the frontrunners for a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of AlphaFold

Award for work on shapes of proteins raises prospect of AI research earning a Nobel for first time

The prediction of a protein structure from its sequence will be an incredible tool.

A whole new category of generative AI is emerging as LLMs learn the language of life.

Researchers have designed proteins that self-assemble into tiny machine parts for use in molecular engines

Researchers have designed proteins that self-assemble into tiny machine parts for use in molecular engines

The Google subsidiary solved a fundamental problem in biology but didn’t promptly share its solution. So a University of Washington team tried to re-create it.

2020 had some significant silver linings. Here are 7 of them. Vox.com 12/28/2020 Kelsey Piper © Getty Images 2020 has had good news that will stand out as astonishing triumphs of human achievement. 2020 has been a lousy year. Time magazine’s cover story declared it the “worst year ever” (or at least “in living memory for most Americans”). And it is finishing on a miserable note, with coronavirus deaths reaching horrifying new heights — worse than a 9/11 every si...

Finding the best ways to do good. 2020 has been a lousy year. Time magazine’s cover story declared it the “worst year ever” (or at least “in living memory for most Americans”). And it is finishing on a miserable note, with coronavirus deaths reaching horrifying new heights — worse than a 9/11 every single day — while public health experts beg us to celebrate the winter holidays alone. But 2020 wasn’t all bad news. In fact, I’ll go further than that: 2020 had good news tha...