The deep learning machine AlphaFold, which was created by Google's AI research lab DeepMind, is already transforming our understanding of the molecular biology that underpins health and disease.

Let’s just hope they don’t give the literature award to a bot, too This year's Nobel Prizes are shaping up to be a triumph for AI. After awarding the physics prize to early AI pioneers yesterday, the chemistry prize has now gone to the creators of AI protein prediction platform AlphaFold and protein design tool Rosetta.

David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on computational protein design and protein structure prediction.