Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

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Google DeepMind has reassigned most original AlphaFold authors, signaling notable talent churn around one of AI biology’s flagship projects.

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<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/61b2953d-ee0d-45de-af6e-a9c1cf524b33?accessToken=zwAAAZ-saIC9kc9hspU97g1F3tOvbqnBz1JLMw.MEUCIDABGXDaUtwfjiMl_j0Ohk_6Hx0HjyE1Uzp_OG2oNaMlAiEA6DTjVNTJxSj7jaq_c69FedmGnNqmN-lSINe3xyIgX4A&amp;sharetype=gift&amp;token=56cb59cc-cc42-4a97-9807-70b1d6540680"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260729/i2.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260729/p2#a260729p2" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Madhumita Murgia / <a href="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/61b2953d-ee0d-45de-af6e-a9c1cf524b33?accessToken=zwAAAZ-saIC9kc9hspU97g1F3tOvbqnBz1JLMw.MEUCIDABGXDaUtwfjiMl_j0Ohk_6Hx0HjyE1Uzp_OG2oNaMlAiEA6DTjVNTJxSj7jaq_c69FedmGnNqmN-lSINe3xyIgX4A&amp;sharetype=gift&amp;token=56cb59cc-cc42-4a97-9807-70b1d6540680">Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery</p>