Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift
Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery
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Published: 29 July 2026
Source: Financial Times Technology (headlines)
Category: News
Topics: Biotech
Retrieved: 29 July 2026
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