The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton shared the award for their work on artificial neural networks and machine learning

Thanks to these Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, artificial intelligence now reveals the internal structure of proteins, allowing scientists to design new ones. Here's what these advancements could mean for us.