For the past 50 years, Biologists have been stuck on a problem, the “protein folding problem”, to predict in what shapes proteins fold into. Despite all their attempts, they could not solve it. Until now. Just last month a team from DeepMind, a Google owned AI company, created AlphaFold, a AI system able to solve the 50 year old problem of protein folding.

Apparently this is a total game changer for Biology, the science created by Aristotle over 2,300 years ago. His work studying animals and life laid the foundations for biology and science, and considering the time he lived in, was very impressive work. Imagine what Aristotle could have achieved if he had computers and AI to help him.

Watch the videos below to learn more about AlphaFold, or you can also go to our blog post about biology and Aristotle or to the DeepMind blog post with more information.