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How AlphaFold and other AI tools could help us prepare for the next pandemic

Researchers are using machine-learning programs to predict the evolution of viruses and design vaccines.
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  1. Ewen Callaway

In the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported another worrying virus. Identified in 35 people in eastern China since 2018, Langya henipavirus causes breathing problems, fever and other troubling symptoms.

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Nature 622, 440-441 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03201-4

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