“The AlphaFold 2 system, for which Hassabis and Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024, is often held up as proof of that promise. It predicted the structures of 200 million proteins, yet it would be experimentally impossible to verify even a fraction. To do so, proteins would typically have to be isolated from cells in notable quantities – a capricious process – and then subjected to techniques such as X-ray diffraction and nuclear magnetic resonance.”
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