Babbage: Protein power

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Babbage: Protein power
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:27:14
• Published: 2021-07-27 19:44

Google’s DeepMind has developed an artificial-intelligence system that can predict the three-dimensional shape of proteins. How will this monumental step-change for biology be used? Also, a new study shows how wearable devices could help doctors understand long covid. And how songbirds reacquired an ability lost by their dinosaur ancestors. Kenneth Cukier hosts 

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