The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools.

David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential.

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Popular information: They have revealed proteins’ secrets through computing and artificial intelligence

Scientific background: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction