[lowkeynthorough]

DeepMind actually solved harder problems than most of the ones mentioned. All the proteins mentioned in the article (except for the chaperones) are 100 amino-acid and shorter, the therapeutic ones are even shorter, dozen(s) of AA. Thus, great preview of what is to come, though its from (2017). C&EN is truly the quantamagazine of biochem...

[catominor]

sorry, I think I'm out of the loop, what do you mean regarding the quanta magazine reference? Is that a good or bad thing?

[est]

I guess it's good for outsiders but pretty bad, inaccurate and overhyped for insiders.

[arolihas]

Wait quanta is bad? I like their articles damn...

[Enginerrrd]

I wouldn't call quanta overhyped. Implications are at best embellished very modestly for entertainment purposes, but they do a very good job of staying true to the original paper and communicating some of the main ideas in a less-dumbed-down version than SA, and less ridiculously inaccurate/overhyped way than say physorg.

Maybe the physics/math editor/writers are better than the biology. I don't read the bio articles, so I can't comment directly about them. I just read the compsci/physics/math and they're not that bad.