While many businesses continue to seek AI’s killer app, biochemists have already found it. That application is protein folding. This week marks the five-year anniversary of the debut of Alpha Fold 2, ...

When John Jumper got the call earlier this month from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that he was winning the Nobel Prize, he almost didn’t answer. The director of Google DeepMind, the tech ...

Mapping proteins unlocks clues to preventing and treating illnesses. Here’s how DeepMind’s AlphaFold is accelerating this research exponentially.

Read Jennifer Doudna’s tribute to Demis Hassabis here. Demis Hassabis learned he had won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

Researchers have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to tackle one of the most complex challenges in immunology: predicting how T cells recognize and respond to specific peptide antigens.

Over the past six years, artificial intelligence has been significantly influenced by 12 foundational research papers. One ...

No one could accuse Demis Hassabis of dreaming small. In 2016, the company he co-founded, DeepMind, shocked the world when an artificial intelligence model it created beat the best human player of the ...

Proteins are the microscopic workhorses of the human body, driving everything from oxygen transport to muscle contraction. Their complex 3D structures dictate their function, and understanding these ...

Using Google’s AlphaFold, researchers identified the bundle of three sperm proteins that seem to make sexual reproduction possible. By Elizabeth Preston They’re the original odd couple: One is massive ...

Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, a senior researcher at the company, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts ...