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Has it been solved as predicted? “Now, it looks as if he and his colleagues have cracked it. Thanks in part to crowdsourced computers and smartphones belonging
by melling 9y ago
Has it been solved as predicted?
“Now, it looks as if he and his colleagues have cracked it. Thanks in part to crowdsourced computers and smartphones belonging to over a million volunteers, the scientists have figured out how to choose the building blocks required to create a protein that will take on the shape they want.”
- dang 9y agoWe changed the submission title above from "The Protein folding problem is now solved, one of Kurzweil's predictions", which was editorialized. Since the article's own title is rather linkbaity, which also breaks the site guidelines, we changed it to representative language from the article text.
- SCAQTony 9y agoI wonder if this breakthrough could help build foodstuffs like breast milk for infants or less expensive high quality meat?
- toufka 9y agoYep. And silks, and leathers, and therapetics, and biosensors. See: Muufri, Bolt Threads, Modern Meadow, Cell Design Labs, Logic Ink, etc.