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, ...

The artificial intelligence–based structure-prediction software AlphaFold, originally developed by Google DeepMind, has quickly become an important tool for drug discovery. Its original iteration ...

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, ...

Proteins are crucial for life. They’re made of amino acids that “fold” into millions of different shapes. And depending on their structure, they do radically different things in our cells. For a long ...

“I’ll be shocked if we don’t see more and more LLM impact on science,” says John Jumper. In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on ...