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Image from Pinterest I. The Chasm In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the team behind AlphaFold—an AI system that predicts protein structures with near-experimental accuracy, solving a problem that had resisted fifty years of scientific effort.¹ What previously took years of laboratory work now takes seconds at negligible marginal cost. Drug candidates that once required billions of dollars and more than a decade of human research are being generated in months at a

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