Google identifies millions of mutations in proteins capable of generating diseases

Estructuras de proteínas predichas por el sistema de inteligencia artificial AlphaFold.

It is the holy grail of modern medicine: identifying the alterations in the genome that cause the appearance of diseases of genetic origin. The task is not easy, there are thousands of mutations in each person regarding the genetic information they inherited from their parents. Most are benign, but there is a percentage that can be pathogenic. Now, researchers from Google DeepMind, Alphabet's artificial intelligence company, have cataloged 71 million of these mutations. The program was also able to classify them, finding that a third could modify the functioning of the proteins, causing serious pathologies.

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