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It's Not All Fun and Games: How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine's Secrets

Medicine and the Machine

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Protein Folding - It's a 50-Year Project

50 years ago, christian infinson won the nobell prize in chemistry. He said some day that you would be able to predict the three d structure of proteins from the amino acid sequence. And then you just did it. It's really, i think it may be the most import life sined break through i can remember,. certainly in decades a and i think that is. Maybe you could frame it this, of course, started alpha fold back in two thousand 16. You have a team, i guess, about 20 people that work on this. It's amazing.

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