The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Sweden.
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on proteins.Proteins are the building blocks of life and are found in every cell in the human body.Professor David Baker, based in the US, used amino acids to design a new protein, opening the door to the creation of new proteins used in pharmaceuticals, vaccines and other tools.
Prof Baker told the committee shortly after the announcement that he was "very excited and very honoured". "I stood on the shoulders of giants," he said when asked how he had cracked the code of creating proteins. UK-based Demis Hassabis and John Jumper used artificial intelligence to predict the structures of almost all known proteins and created a tool called AlphaFold2.The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden.This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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