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Are we getting closer to a protein revolution in medicine?

One of biology's biggest mysteries has been solved using artificial intelligence. Will a better understanding of protein shape now play a key role in the development of new drugs?

One of biology's biggest mysteries has been solved using artificial intelligence. Predicting how a protein folds into a unique three-dimensional shape has puzzled scientists for half a century. Will a better understanding of protein shapes developed by the London-based AI lab, DeepMind, now play a key role in the development of new drugs? With Tanya Beckett

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