Edith Heard worked out how the X chromosome works in women. She has spent decades leading thousands of scientists in trying to understand how the molecules in cells make organisms tick. At the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, she also helped usher in biology’s AI era, by helping Google DeepMind share its Nobel-prize-winning AlphaFold algorithm. Now she’s at the head of Europe’s biggest biomedical research institute—and is ready to tackle biology’s most difficult problems.
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