{"id":13739,"date":"2025-06-25T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13739\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:38:14","slug":"googles-ai-company-deepmind-launches-genetics-prediction-tool-stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/13739\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI company DeepMind launches genetics prediction tool| STAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-bio\">Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy \u2014 with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can reach Katie on Signal at palmer.01.<\/p>\n<p>In biology circles, Google\u2019s AI research company DeepMind is best known for folding proteins. Its deep learning model AlphaFold, which predicts the structure of a protein from its sequence of amino acids, shared the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/10\/09\/nobel-prize-chemistry-baker-hassabis-jumper-awarded-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nobel Prize in chemistry<\/a> last year with the University of Washington\u2019s David Baker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But DeepMind has lately been working on a much gnarlier precursor problem: predicting how DNA encodes gene regulation. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/deepmind.google\/discover\/blog\/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preprint and blog post<\/a> published on Wednesday, it announced its latest stab at the challenge with a new model called AlphaGenome, an early step toward possible applications in therapeutic development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the well-defined problem of protein structure prediction, \u201cgenomics is more of a fuzzy field,\u201d said DeepMind research engineer Natasha Latysheva. \u201cThere\u2019s no single metric of success.\u201d So DeepMind has gone after as many of them as it can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-text\">STAT+ Exclusive Story<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-login\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"restricted-content-breaker-bg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/stat-plus-breaker-bg.png\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stat-plus-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/stat\/images\/stat-plus-logo-white.svg\" alt=\"STAT+\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThis article is exclusive to STAT+ subscribers<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tUnlock this article \u2014 plus in-depth analysis, newsletters, premium events, and news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-breaker-wrapper-cta mobile\">Already have an account? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/login\/\" data-stat-login=\"\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker login cta mobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tIndividual plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGroup plans<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button view-all\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker view all plans\" aria-label=\"View All Plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View All Plans<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"restricted-content-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTo read the rest of this story subscribe to STAT+.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/stat-plus\/\" class=\"stat-button restricted-button\" data-stat-paywall-cta=\"breaker subscribe cta 1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy \u2014 with an emphasis on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[738,815,1183,159,154,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-13739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-genetics","10":"tag-research","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-stat","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114744519229955956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}