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How life begins: Egg, sperm, and a covert team of proteins
AlphaFold revealed a trio of sperm proteins enables fertilization by binding to egg proteins. The mechanism works in ...
Proteins on sperm form a 'key' allowing it to fuse with an egg, new study finds
The team found that three proteins on the sperm join to form a sort of key that unlocks the egg, allowing the sperm to attach ...
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How AI Researchers Won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry: Two Key Lessons for Future Scientific Discoveries
The 2024 Nobel Prizes have taken many by surprise, as AI researchers are among the distinguished recipients in both Physics ...
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Artificial Intelligence enters science limelight with Nobel wins
PARIS—For long periods of its history, artificial intelligence has lurked in the hinterland of science, often unloved and ...
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The huge protein database that spawned AlphaFold and biology’s AI revolution
Pioneering crystallographer Helen Berman helped to set up the massive collection of protein structures that underpins the ...
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Scientists show how sperm and egg come together
New life begins with the meeting of sperm and egg. But how they fuse together has long been a mystery. New research by scientists in Austria provides tantalizing clues, showing fertilization works ...
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The Nobel Prizes will be announced against a backdrop of wars, famine and artificial intelligence
Withholding the Nobel Peace is not new ... among those under consideration for the chemistry prize. The company’s artificial intelligence, AlphaFold, “accurately predicts the structure ...
I was a beta tester for the Nobel prize-winning AlphaFold AI—it's going to revolutionize health research
The deep learning machine AlphaFold, which was created by Google's AI research lab DeepMind, is already transforming our ...
Google’s triumph on the Nobel stage resolves a 50-year-old mystery
AlphaFold 2, an AI model developed through Google’s DeepMind initiative, cracked the code for predicting complex protein ...
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Artificial intelligence helps scientists win the Nobel Prize — and solves the protein-folding mystery
The 2024 Nobel Prizes underscore both the importance of this kind of artificial intelligence and how science today often crosses traditional boundaries, blending different fields to achieve ...