Kendrew uncovered the structure of myoglobin using a method known as X-ray crystallography, a technique where crystals of a substance—in this case myoglobin—are grown and then bombarded with X-rays.

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Human muscles are red - that's because of a protein called myoglobin, which allows our muscles to store oxygen. In marine mammals, the muscles are almost black because they contain so much myoblobin.

Predicting proteins’ structure from their amino acid sequences had stumped researchers since the 1970s. But in 2020, Hassabis and Jumper developed an artificial intelligence model called AlphaFold2.