Machine learning cracked the protein-folding problem and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry

The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry^[1] recognized Demis Hassabis^[2], John Jumper^[3] and David Baker^[4] for using machine learning to tackle one of biology’s biggest challenges: predicting the 3D shape of proteins^[5] and designing them from scratch.

This year’s award stood out because it honored research that originated at a tech company:...

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