Stephen Fried is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry working on misfolded proteins, which are prevalent in ...

The world of protein engineering just took a giant leap forward. A team in China has developed a method that makes designing better proteins faster, cheaper, and easier.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the scientific landscape, offering fantastic solutions to some of the most pressing global challenges. From combating climate change to transforming ...

AlphaFold, a transformative AI-driven tool developed by DeepMind, has revolutionized the field of structural biology by accurately predicting protein structures. This breakthrough holds significant ...

A three-decade-old competition that has spawned three Nobel laureates is becoming victim to the chaos at the National Institutes of Health. The Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of ...

In 2020, news headlines repeated John Moult’s words at the end of a stunning competition: Artificial intelligence had “solved” a long-standing grand challenge in biology, protein structure prediction.

Kent Hall buzzed with anticipation as a standing-room-only crowd of University of Chicago scientists and students eagerly awaited a talk by UChicago alum John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in ...

While language models are getting better at performing tasks like writing poetry and emails, Jumper is looking forward to an era where AI solves problems humans never could on their own. When John ...