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What becomes possible when we can see and shape life’s machinery?

Structure, design and therapeutic candidates, with experiments still required where predictions end.

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Small enough to be immense.

Follow one building block from sequence to a neighborhood inside the same protein prediction.

Watch / Explore · Human p53
Source-derived human p53 prediction, AlphaFold v6

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The evidence so far

DISCOVERY

Reading more of a DNA change's consequences

AlphaGenome is a unified DNA-sequence model that takes up to 1 Mb of DNA and predicts thousands of functional genomic tracks, including gene expression, splicing, chromatin features, transcription-factor binding, and contact maps.

Source published 2026-01-28 · Demonstrated
DISCOVERY

Twelve millimetres, or three centimetres.

A breast cancer found by imaging is typically about 12 mm across. One found by a hand — a woman's own, or a clinician's — is typically about 21 mm. In India, where almost no one is screened, four out of five recorded tumours are already 3 cm or larger when they are found.

Source published 2025-12-11 · Emerging
DISCOVERY

An MRI becomes a spatial view.

SimBioSys TumorSight Viz turns breast MRI images into three-dimensional views for surgical planning, according to NVIDIA’s report.

Source published 2024-10-31 · Emerging
DISCOVERY

More room to read cancer genomes.

Wellcome Sanger Institute explored accelerated genome analysis using NVIDIA Parabricks and GPU systems.

Source published 2024-09-23 · Emerging
DISCOVERY

Seeing molecules together.

AlphaFold 3 expanded structural prediction to complexes of proteins and other biomolecules.

Source published 2024-05-08 · Demonstrated
DISCOVERY

Designing proteins with purpose.

RFdiffusion enabled researchers to generate proteins with specified structural and functional goals.

Source published 2023-07-11 · Demonstrated
DISCOVERY

Seeing the shape of life.

Researchers used AlphaFold to predict protein structures with accuracy competitive with experimental structures on many CASP14 targets. Bright's interactive p53 view uses a separate, later AlphaFold DB prediction: human p53 AF-P04637-F1 model v6, created on 2025-08-01.

Source published 2021-07-15 · Demonstrated

More to follow

Short source reports on announced work, early results and emerging uses.

SIGNAL · SOURCE REPORT

A prospective study tested AI-assisted mammography in routine screening.

The study reported a higher cancer-detection rate with no statistically significant recall-rate difference in its setting. It is observational, limited to a particular workflow and does not establish mortality benefit.

Artificial intelligence for breast cancer screening in mammography (AI-STREAM) · published 2025-03-06Captured 2026-09-06 · a lead, not a verified achievement.
EXPERIENCE

Life has a shape

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