This is the inside story of how AI cracked the protein folding code. In 2024, David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for these advances in computer-assisted protein design and structure prediction.
Proteins are biological nano-machines that perform a vast array of vital functions inside of every living organism. For more than half a century, scientists have looked to solve the central mystery of protein science: How does a one-dimensional string of molecules fold innately and near-instantaneously into a complex three-dimensional shape? In 2020, Google DeepMind entered a deep-learning algorithm called AlphaFold2 into the Olympics of protein folding — and to everyone’s shock and surprise, ended up so
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This is the inside story of how AI cracked the protein folding code. In 2024, David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for these advances in computer-assisted protein design and structure prediction.
Proteins are biological nano-machines that perform a vast array of vital functions inside of every living organism. For more than half a century, scientists have looked to solve the central mystery of protein science: How does a one-dimensional string of molecules fold innately and near-instantaneously into a complex three-dimensional shape? In 2020, Google DeepMind entered a deep-learning algorithm called AlphaFold2 into the Olympics of protein folding — and to everyone’s shock and surprise, ended up solving a key part of the puzzle. This breakthrough kick-started an AI revolution in biology research, clearing the path to revolutionary new techniques in protein design, which is the process of creating new and novel proteins that could solve some of the world's biggest problems.
Israel's unabated bombardments across the war-torn Gaza Strip have claimed the lives of 36 Palestinians, including 34 from northern Gaza, since dawn today, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
En el universo observable hay unas 200.000 millones de galaxias. Si cada galaxia tuviera el tamaño de un cereal de desayuno, el universo observable tendría 37 titanics de largo (unos 10 km). Si juntamos todas las galaxias del tamaño de un cereal y las vertemos en una pisicina de 25m x 12.5m x 1.8m, ¿crees que se llenaría la piscina?
"Este vídeo fue relativamente complicado debido a la cantidad de cereales o galaxias que tuve que renderizar a veces. Creo que en la toma en la que estoy "bajo el agua" rodeado de galaxias había como un millón a mi alrededor, ¡lo que hizo sudar un poco a mi ordenador! Tuve que hacer las galaxias un poco más pequeñas de lo que deberían para esa toma, porque de lo contrario era sólo un mar de luz blanca. Fue todo un reto conseguir la escala real de 200.000 millon
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En el universo observable hay unas 200.000 millones de galaxias. Si cada galaxia tuviera el tamaño de un cereal de desayuno, el universo observable tendría 37 titanics de largo (unos 10 km). Si juntamos todas las galaxias del tamaño de un cereal y las vertemos en una pisicina de 25m x 12.5m x 1.8m, ¿crees que se llenaría la piscina?
"Este vídeo fue relativamente complicado debido a la cantidad de cereales o galaxias que tuve que renderizar a veces. Creo que en la toma en la que estoy "bajo el agua" rodeado de galaxias había como un millón a mi alrededor, ¡lo que hizo sudar un poco a mi ordenador! Tuve que hacer las galaxias un poco más pequeñas de lo que deberían para esa toma, porque de lo contrario era sólo un mar de luz blanca. Fue todo un reto conseguir la escala real de 200.000 millones, pero en este caso me gustó mucho añadir la parte sobre cómo y por qué sabemos estas cosas. Hay tantas historias maravillosas en la ciencia sobre cómo sabemos las cosas."
This system of trade incentivizes more people to waste plastic and pollute, than use it wisely or cleanup like these people do. Ultimately we need to deal with this bad and global incentive because the balance is tilted in the wrong way.
I took a part in the World Clean Up Day 2024. An epic event which happens once a year. It unites millions of people all over the world with a mission to clean up nature. To find out more, participa...
Anyone know what's up with the Firefox fork Fennec? I got a warning the other day that there were security vulnerabilities in the app, and upon checking when the last version was compiled it was in August. The source cide link just takes me to Mozilla's repos.
Disabled the app and switched browsers for the moment, but wanted to know if anybody knows what's going on with it. If not, anybody know of any other Android Firefox forks that cut Mozilla things out?
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