{"id":116471,"date":"2020-11-30T14:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/ai-solves-50-year-old-science-problem-in-stunning-advance"},"modified":"2020-11-30T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T22:22:16","slug":"ai-solves-50-year-old-science-problem-in-stunning-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/ai-solves-50-year-old-science-problem-in-stunning-advance","title":{"rendered":"AI solves 50-year-old science problem in \u2018stunning advance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/videos\/jSrPNIP2-OhrQWqOm.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>A 50-year-old science problem has been solved and could allow for dramatic changes in the fight against diseases, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>For years, scientists have been struggling with the problem of \u201cprotein folding\u201d \u2013 mapping the three-dimensional shapes of the proteins that are responsible for diseases from cancer to Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s Deepmind claims to have created an artificially intelligent program called \u201cAlphaFold\u201d that is able to solve those problems in a matter of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-year-old science problem has been solved and could allow for dramatic changes in the fight against diseases, researchers say. For years, scientists have been struggling with the problem of \u201cprotein folding\u201d \u2013 mapping the three-dimensional shapes of the proteins that are responsible for diseases from cancer to Covid-19. Google\u2019s Deepmind claims to have created [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}