A breakthrough in protein design
Meet Top7. On first inspection, this 3D structure may look like something you've seen before, but a closer look reveals the truth: Top7, which is made up of 93 amino acid residues, was a completely new protein when it was made back in 2003, with no relation to any protein previously found in nature.
Find out everything you need to know about David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, and how they won the 2024 chemistry Nobel prize for AI protein prediction, over at Chemistry World here: https://rsc.li/AI-protein-Nobel
