AI didn't replace protein experiments, it made scientists study proteins they used to ignore

A new AI model that predicts protein structures became widely available to scientists. This meant researchers started studying proteins they previously ignored, rather than just speeding up existing work.

For decades, understanding protein structures was slow and expensive. This meant scientists focused on proteins they already knew were important. Now, AI lets them quickly predict structures for proteins that were too hard or obscure to study, opening up entirely new areas of basic research.