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Dr David Baker's Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough of designing new proteins has the potential to stop cancers, pandemics, fix plastic pollution, and rein in carbon emissions.
Proteins are chains of amino acids - essential for building and repairing tissue, forming enzymes and hormones, and they support the immune system by making antibodies.
Dr. Baker's groundbreaking research has enabled the creation of custom proteins, already being used to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges.
Dr Baker's research used computer and laboratory techniques to create the proteins.
Last year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - alongside Google DeepMind's Sir Demis Hassabis and John Jumper.
Dr Baker's work, which was referred to as 'world changing' by the Nobel Foundation judges, was done out of the University of Washington's Baker Lab, where they pioneered the world's most popular software for computational protein design.
