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EVENT STREAM // OCTOBER 2020

ALPHAFOLD SOLVES PROTEIN FOLDING

 ·  Critical impact

DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 solves the 50-year-old protein folding problem. A genuine scientific breakthrough — but the same technology could accelerate bioweapon design.

MILESTONE BIOWEAPON
SOURCES [2]
  1. Jumper et al., Nature 596 (2021) — nature.com
  2. CASP14 results — predictioncenter.org