How AI could help map the organized chaos in our cells

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The inside of a cell is a complicated orchestration of interactions between molecules. KEITH CHAMBERS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

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As artificial intelligence seeps into various areas of our society, it’s rushing into others. One area it’s making a big difference is protein science. We’re talking the molecules that make our cells work. AI has hurtled the field forward by predicting what these molecular machines look like, which tells scientists how they do what they do — from processing our food to turning light into sugar.

Now, scientists at Google

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