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AI solves 50-year-old science problem in 'stunning advance' that could dramatically change how we fight diseases, researchers say

By The Independent  
   November 30, 2020

For years, scientists have been struggling with the problem of “protein folding” – mapping the three-dimensional shapes of the proteins that are responsible for diseases from cancer to Covid-19. Google's Deepmind claims to have created an artificially intelligent program called "AlphaFold" that is able to solve those problems in a matter of days.

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