Can AI predict what goes on INSIDE our bodies?
This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying…
GOOGLE IT. The tech giant’s AI division – DeepMind – has developed an algorithm to model our bodies’ internal molecules… It’s called AlphaFold, and it’s a Nobel Prize winner.
Its most recent update is startling.
Before, it could already predict the shape of a protein. A protein’s SHAPE determines its FUNCTION!
Now, AlphaFold’s latest version has gotten over a major hurdle! It can forecast how those proteins will interact with pieces of their environment.
So take a bow Josh Abramson and the DeepMind team. They’re the developers of AlphaFold Three. This biological predictive tool could design better medicines!
A preview of MY protein production? This I gotta see!
Reference: Abramson, J., Adler, J., Dunger, J., Evans, R., Green, T., Pritzel, A., Ronneberger, O., Willmore, L., Ballard, A. J., Bambrick, J., Bodenstein, S. W., Evans, D. A., Hung, C.-C., O’Neill, M., Reiman, D., Tunyasuvunakool, K., Wu, Z., Žemgulytė, A., Arvaniti, E., … Jumper, J. M. (2024). Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3. Nature, 630(8016), 493–500. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07487-w