CIC bioGUNE - Centre for Cooperative Research in Biosciences
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Postdoctoral researcher at Gastrointestinal Genetics Lab, CIC bioGUNE - BRTA (Basque Research & Technology Alliance), Derio (Vizcaya)
Ikerbasque research professor at the Computational Chemistry Laboratory of CIC bioGUNE
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 on the one hand to David Baker for computational protein design, which makes it possible to construct proteins with functions not present in nature. On the other hand, jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind, for the development of AlphaFold2, which allows the structure of the 200 million known proteins to be predicted at high speed.
An international team with Spanish participation has developed a database with the metagenome of bacteria, fungi, and yeasts present in more than 2,500 foods, mostly dairy products, followed by beverages and fermented meats. The authors identified more than 10,800 microorganisms, half of which were previously unknown species. The study, published in Cell, shows that food-associated microorganisms are present in 3% of the adult gut microbiome and 56% of that of newborns.