The other is about fulfilling a 50-year-old dream - predicting protein structures from their amino acid sequences. Both of these discoveries open up vast possibilities.
According to the academy, David Baker at the University of Washington succeeded in using these blocks to design a new protein that was 'unlike any other protein'.
Since then, his research group has produced new proteins that can be used as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors.
The duo from DeepMind - the British firm acquired by Google in 2014 - used an AI model called AlphaFold to solve a 50-year-old problem - predicting proteins' complex structures.
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