DeepMind artificial intelligence cracks 50-year-old scientific riddle

An image issued by DeepMind of a three-dimensional digital rendering of a protein. (Credits: PA)A problem dating back five decades may have been cracked by artificial intelligence created in the UK, paving the way for faster development of treatments and drug discoveries.The so-called ‘protein folding problem’ has long been one of biology’s biggest challenges because there are so many of them and their 3D shapes are difficult to map out.Almost all diseases, including cancer, de