The Next Step for AI in Biology Is to Predict How Proteins Behave in the Body

Proteins are often called the building blocks of life. While true, the analogy evokes images of Lego-like pieces snapping together to form intricate but rigid blocks that combine into muscles and other tissues. In reality, proteins are more like flexible tumbleweeds--highly sophisticated structures with "spikes" and branches protruding from a central frame--that morph and change […]