Decoding the secrets of life with AI - with Mikhail Burtsev

Find out how AI is helping to decipher genomes, uncover the secrets of human biology, and accelerate medical discoveries. This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 7 July 2025, in partnership with the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising our understanding of life. The DeepMind programme tackling the protein folding problem, AlphaFold, earned last year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. But that was just the beginning.

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