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World Service,24 Dec 2020,23 mins

Are we getting closer to a protein revolution in medicine?

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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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