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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on proteins
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on proteins

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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on proteins

Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Applied sciences, speaks at a Google I/O occasion in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, Could 14, 2024.

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STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for his or her breakthrough work predicting and designing the construction of proteins, the constructing blocks of life.

Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, stated the award honored analysis that made connections between amino acid sequence and protein construction.

“That was actually called a grand challenge in chemistry, and in particular in biochemistry, for decades. So, it’s that breakthrough that gets awarded today,” he stated.

Baker works on the College of Washington in Seattle, whereas Hassabis and Jumper each work at Google Deepmind in London.

Baker designed a brand new protein in 2003 and his analysis group has since produced one imaginative protein creation after one other, together with proteins that can be utilized as prescribed drugs, vaccines, nanomaterials and tiny sensors, the Nobel committee stated.

“The number of designs that they have, produced and published, and … the variety is absolutely mind blowing. It seems that you can almost construct any type of protein with this technology,” stated Professor Johan Åqvist of the Nobel committee.

Hassabis and Jumper created a man-made intelligence mannequin that has been in a position to predict the construction of nearly all of the 200 million proteins that researchers have recognized, the committee added.

Linke stated scientists had lengthy dreamt of predicting the three-dimensional construction of proteins.

“Four years ago in 2020, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper managed to crack the code. With skillful use of artificial intelligence, they made it possible to predict the complex structure of essentially any known protein in nature,” Linke stated.

“Another dream of scientists has been to build new proteins to learn how to use nature’s multi-tool for our own purposes. This is the problem that David Baker solved,” he added. “He developed computational tools that now enable scientists to design spectacular new proteins with entirely novel shapes and functions, opening endless possibilities for the greatest benefit to humankind.”

Final 12 months, the chemistry award went to 3 scientists for his or her work on quantum dots — tiny particles only a few nanometers in diameter that may launch very shiny coloured gentle and whose functions in on a regular basis life embody electronics and medical imaging.

Six days of Nobel bulletins opened Monday with People Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun profitable the medication prize. Two founding fathers of machine studying — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — received the physics prize.

The awards proceed with the literature prize on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize can be introduced Friday and the economics award on Oct. 14.

The prize carries a money award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to obtain their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s demise.

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