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Groundbreaking AI solves biology mystery in 'holy grail' for treating diseases

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Artificial intelligence has cracked a biological mystery that offers a “holy grail” for the treatment of diseases – including the coronavirus.

Scientists at Deepmind, a Google-owned AI company based in London, believe they have solved the so-called “protein folding problem”.There are 200 million known proteins and many drugs – such as those designed for Covid-19 – act on them when processes go wrong inside the body.Scientists have only been to identify the structure of a handful, with their 3D shapes difficult to map out.But Deepmind has offered a solution, saying its system is able to determine highly accurate structures in a matter of days.It has worked on the AI project with the 14th Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment.

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