<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><font size="4">"Thanks to AI, we just got stunningly powerful tools to decode life.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><font size="4">In two <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(237,102,41);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">back</a>-to-<a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/07/14/science.abj8754" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(237,102,41);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">back</a> papers last week, scientists at DeepMind and the University of Washington described deep learning-based methods to solve protein folding—the last step of executing the programming in our DNA, and a “<a href="https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(237,102,41);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;outline:0px">once in a generation advance</a>.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><font size="4">"With the two studies, we’re entering a new world of predicting—and subsequently engineering or changing—the building blocks of life. Dr. Andrei Lupas, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, and a CASP judge, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(237,102,41);box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none">agrees</a>: “This will change medicine. It will change research,” he said. “It will change bioengineering. It will change everything.”</font></p><div><font size="4"><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2021/07/20/new-protein-folding-ai-just-made-a-once-in-a-generation-advance-in-biology/" target="_blank">https://singularityhub.com/2021/07/20/new-protein-folding-ai-just-made-a-once-in-a-generation-advance-in-biology/</a></font></div></div>