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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Protein Folding - The Basic Building Blocks of Biology

Protein folding and alpha folder, specific alpha fold to did just that it's solved protein folding. I think it's one of the biggest breakthroughs, certainly in history of structural biology,. What is it and how does it work? And then we can ask some fascinating questions after. If you want to target something with a drug compound about to block something the proteins doing, you need to understand where it's going to bind on the surface of the protein.

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