Open sourcing over 200 million protein structures to help researchers solve countless problems Big data in biology leads to discoveries that can benefit humankind. That’s the core belief at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and what its scientists have proven to be true ever since its founding at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK,…

New insights into how immunity evolves could help scientists protect all the world’s flora and fauna from disease Vilde Leipart is a researcher at Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås. She shares her AlphaFold story. I feel strongly about the need to protect honeybees. Honeybees are so integral to our culture and to our…

Looking hundreds of millions of years into a protein’s past with AlphaFold to learn about the beginnings of life itself Pedro Beltrao is a geneticist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He shares his AlphaFold story. As a scientist, I’m interested in our differences.  More specifically, I’m interested in how those differences occur. While there are…

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Finding solutions to improve turtle reidentification and supporting machine learning projects across Africa Protecting the ecosystems around us is critical to safeguarding the future of our planet and all its living citizens. Fortunately, new artificial intelligence (AI) systems are making progress in conservation efforts worldwide, helping tackle complex problems at scale – from studying the…

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New research drawing upon pragmatics and philosophy proposes ways to align conversational agents with human values Language is an essential human trait and the primary means by which we communicate information including thoughts, intentions, and feelings. Recent breakthroughs in AI research have led to the creation of conversational agents that are able to communicate with…

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