Scientists have hailed a “once in a generation” breakthrough for our understanding of the human body that paves the way for new treatments for dozens of diseases, from malaria to cancer. It could also help feed the world and even solve the plastic crisis.
Artificial intelligence developers have created a programme that can determine the exact dimensions of the tiny, complex, unmapped proteins that make up the human body – and every living thing on the planet – several hundred times faster than by using conventional techniques.
At the moment, it takes anything from several months to years to unravel the hugely complicated series of twists, turns and folds that make up a single protein, since they are far too small to see under a microscope.
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