{"id":225887,"date":"2025-11-25T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/alphafold-the-50-year-grand-challenge-cracked-by-ai"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:32:54","slug":"alphafold-the-50-year-grand-challenge-cracked-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/alphafold-the-50-year-grand-challenge-cracked-by-ai","title":{"rendered":"AlphaFold: The 50-year grand challenge cracked by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r4-hXO7MLVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For half a century, scientists struggled to predict how proteins fold. A puzzle at the heart of understanding life and curing disease. Then, five years ago, the #alphafold team cracked the code.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, more than 3 million researchers across 190+ countries have used AlphaFold\u2019s freely available database of 200 million+ protein structures, accelerating discoveries in everything from drug design to disease-resistant crops, bee conservation, and plastic-eating enzymes.<\/p>\n<p>Further reading:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For half a century, scientists struggled to predict how proteins fold. A puzzle at the heart of understanding life and curing disease. Then, five years ago, the #alphafold team cracked the code. Since then, more than 3 million researchers across 190+ countries have used AlphaFold\u2019s freely available database of 200 million+ protein structures, accelerating discoveries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225887","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}