Christopher Michel @christophermichel.com · Jun 13 “We could wait another million years for the protein we need to evolve, or we could design it ourselves.” — David Baker For billions of years, nature was the only protein designer. David Baker helped change that. explorers.com/david-baker/ @nationalacademies.org @nobelprize.org
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Fascinated by profile of David Baker. I just finished reading "The Infinity Machine" by Sebastian Mallaby where I learned about Demis Hassbis and AlphaFold with brief references to the connection with Baker's FoldIt. Your description of Baker's work helped me understand protein folding a bit more.