Science releases ten scientific breakthroughs in 2021, answering one of the biggest challenges in biology

On December 17, 2021, Science magazine announced its annual scientific breakthrough list for 2021.

These technologies have solved one of the biggest challenges in the biological world-the analysis of the three-dimensional structure of proteins

Last year, DeepMind caused an uproar in the scientific community.

In July of this year, London-based DeepMind released an open source version of its deep learning neural network AlphaFold 2, and published its method in the journal Nature

At the same time, the research team at the University of Washington School of Medicine was inspired by AlphaFold 2 and developed its own protein structure prediction tool

In addition, in November, in order to describe the interactions that produce protein complexes in detail, a team of structural biologists from Washington University School of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Harvard University, and several other institutions examined All the known gene sequences in yeast are included

The researchers used new deep learning software to simulate the three-dimensional shapes of these interacting proteins

However, scientists also said that AlphaFold is not perfect.

 Other scientific breakthroughs include:

Develop antiviral drugs against COVID-19, new measurements of muons, seismic observations on Mars, restoration of ancient human DNA from soil, in vivo applications of CRISPR, new insights into early human development, use of psychedelic drugs to treat PTSD, development for Monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of infectious diseases and advances in fusion energy production

(Biocom)