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The number of designs that they have produced and published, and … the variety is absolutely mind-blowing. It seems that you can almost construct any type of protein with this technology,
said Professor Johan Åqvist of the Nobel committee Four years ago in 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper managed to crack the code. With skillful use of artificial intelligence, they made it possible to predict the complex structure of essentially any known protein in nature,
Another dream of scientists has been to build new proteins to learn how to use nature's multi-tool for our own purposes. This is the problem that David Baker solved,
That was actually called a grand challenge in chemistry, and in particular in biochemistry, for decades. So, it's that breakthrough that gets awarded today,
One of the discoveries being recognised this year concerns the construction of spectacular proteins. The other is about fulfilling a 50-year-old dream: Predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences,
the academy said in a statement