Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for mastering structures of proteins

The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work on understanding the structure of proteins, which play vital roles in all living organisms. Hassabis and Jumper, of Google DeepMind, developed an artificial intelligence that predicts the structure of proteins. Baker, at the University of Washington in Seattle, has been recognised for his work on designing new proteins. Proteins are the molecules that make life happen. All of the key machinery of life is made of proteins, from the muscles that power us and the molecules that read and copy DNA to the antibodies that protect us from infections.