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How AI Cracked the Protein Folding Code and Won a Nobel Prize
This is the inside story of how David Baker (pictured here), Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for advances in computer-assisted protein design and structure prediction.
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