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The new AI tool could help researchers discover previously unknown proteins and design entirely new ones. Using this tool could help develop more efficient vaccines, speed up the search for a cure for cancer, or lead to the discovery of completely new materials. Alpha-Fold Predicts Protein’s Final Structure One of the “big challenges” in biology: predicting the exact shapes of proteins. Proteins are essential to life, and in order to deal with them we must understand their shape well. Earlier this summer, DeepMind announced that its AlphaFold tool can now predict the shapes of all scientifically known proteins. The new tool, known as “ProteinMPNN”, described by a group of researchers from