New Delhi, July 11 -- Microsoft has launched BioEmu, an artificial intelligence system designed to speed up the process of understanding how proteins behave in the human body, work that traditionally takes years of complex computer simulations.

Announcing the breakthrough on X, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said, "Understanding protein motion is essential to understanding biology and advancing drug discovery. Today we're introducing BioEmu, an AI system that emulates the structural ensembles proteins adopt, delivering insights in hours that would otherwise require years of simulation."

The AI system, developed by Microsoft Research's AI for Science team, is capable of predicting the different shapes and movements (or "conform...