The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists
10/11/2024 15:55:29
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who have made groundbreaking discoveries in decoding and even designing new proteins, which are the building blocks of life. The award recognizes their use of advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, which has the potential to revolutionize the creation of new drugs and materials. The winners are David Baker, a biochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, computer scientists at Google DeepMind, an artificial intelligence research laboratory based in London.
David Baker, who has received funding from the National Institutes of Health since the 1990s, created a computer program called Rosetta. This program analyzes information about existing proteins in comprehensive databases to build new proteins that do not exist in nature.
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an artificial intelligence model that has predicted the structure of virtually all the 200 million proteins that researchers have ever identified. Their work has been recognized for cracking the code of proteins' complex structures, which is a grand challenge in chemistry and biochemistry that has persisted for decades.
The Nobel Committee for Chemistry highlighted that this year's awards in both Physics and Chemistry have been dominated by computer scientists associated with AI, indicating a significant shift in the way scientific research is conducted and recognized. The AI model developed by Hassabis and Jumper has been central to understanding the structure of proteins, which are crucial for determining their function. Their work has not only improved the accuracy of protein structure prediction but also opened up new avenues for studying diseases and creating new drugs.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes two different yet closely linked discoveries. On one hand, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have used artificial intelligence to predict the three-dimensional structure of almost all known proteins. On the other hand, David Baker has developed computational methods to create proteins that did not previously exist and which, in many cases, have entirely new functions. These breakthroughs are expected to have a profound impact on biochemistry and the development of new pharmaceuticals and materials.
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