{"id":161660,"date":"2025-11-27T01:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161660\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:34:07","slug":"how-researchers-are-using-googles-biology-ai-system-alphafold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/161660\/","title":{"rendered":"How researchers are using Google\u2019s biology AI system AlphaFold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5. Finding new life in Japan\u2019s hot springs<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"74s8r\">While studying microbes in the hot springs of Japan, Dr. Syun-ichi Urayama\u2019s team discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/services.google.com\/fh\/files\/blogs\/alphafold_in_japan_en.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unusual viruses<\/a>. Using AlphaFold to predict their protein structures, the team confirmed they belonged to a widespread, previously unknown family of life, revealing a new branch of molecular evolution.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"flfis\">These five stories from the Asia-Pacific region \u2014 where we have over 13,000 research papers citing AlphaFold \u2014 represent just a fraction of what scientists have discovered since we introduced the technology. From tackling neglected diseases to rewriting evolutionary history, AlphaFold has fundamentally changed biological research, empowering a global community of scientists to accelerate their work and tackle humanity&#8217;s greatest challenges.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"90tai\">Learn more about AlphaFold \u2014 including the co-award of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for its development \u2014 on the <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/blog\/alphafold-five-years-of-impact\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Deepmind blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5. Finding new life in Japan\u2019s hot springs While studying microbes in the hot springs of Japan, Dr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,9277,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-161660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-none","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}