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EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and Google DeepMind today announced the renewal of their collaboration on the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) – a landmark partnership ...

A new study presents computational strategies to manipulate membrane protein folding and function for biotechnological applications.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the scientific landscape, offering fantastic solutions to some of the most pressing global challenges. From combating climate change to transforming ...

In 2020, news headlines repeated John Moult’s words at the end of a stunning competition: Artificial intelligence had “solved” a long-standing grand challenge in biology, protein structure prediction.

With MassiveFold, scientists have unlocked AlphaFold's full potential, making high-confidence protein predictions faster and more accessible, fueling breakthroughs in biology and drug discovery. Brief ...

Kent Hall buzzed with anticipation as a standing-room-only crowd of University of Chicago scientists and students eagerly awaited a talk by UChicago alum John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in ...

A three-decade-old competition that has spawned three Nobel laureates is becoming victim to the chaos at the National Institutes of Health. The Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of ...

While language models are getting better at performing tasks like writing poetry and emails, Jumper is looking forward to an era where AI solves problems humans never could on their own. When John ...