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Nobel Laureate David Baker on Using AI for Science to Solve Humanity's Biggest Problems
We can now design proteins that eat plastic. Twenty years ago, that sounded like science fiction. Today, a Nobel laureate is doing exactly that. His career path to get here started in philosophy and was anything but linear. His work now aims at tackling some of humanity's biggest problems, from cancer to climate change.
In this episode, we speak with David Baker, 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry and head of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, whose lab pioneered the field of computational protein design.
We cover:
How David went from not knowing what proteins…
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