Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins — life’s building blocks

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life. Baker works at the University of Washington in Seattle, while Hassabis and Jumper both work at Google DeepMind in London. Their work used advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, and holds the potential to transform how new drugs are made. The Nobel Committee says the award honors research that unraveled what it calls “a grand challenge in chemistry, and in particular in biochemistry, for decades.” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life. Baker works at the University of Washington in Seattle, while Hassabis and Jumper both work at Google DeepMind in London. Their work used advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, and holds the potential to transform how new drugs are made. The Nobel Committee says the award honors research that unraveled what it calls “a grand challenge in chemistry, and in particular in biochemistry, for decades.”  AP Technology and Science