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Demis Hassabis Highlights AlphaFold's Role in DIY Digital Biology Cancer Treatment ==================================================================================
Demis Hassabis Highlights AlphaFold's Role in DIY Digital Biology Cancer Treatment ==================================================================================  ### Demis Hassabis
@demishassabis
Cool use case of AlphaFold, this is just the beginning of digital biology!
#### vittorio
@IterIntellectus · 13h ago
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get Show More
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis endorses a breakthrough case where AlphaFold was used by a non-expert to design a successful custom mRNA cancer vaccine for a dog.
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Demis Hassabis reacts to a viral story demonstrating the power of 'digital biology.' In the quoted case, an individual with no formal biology background used AlphaFold and ChatGPT to sequence a dog's tumor DNA, identify mutated proteins, and design a custom mRNA vaccine. The treatment resulted in the tumor halving in size. Hassabis views this as a precursor to a broader revolution in how diseases are treated through computational biology and AI-driven drug discovery.
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