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It’s interesting how Egypt’s efforts to monitor and test for malaria contributed to this accomplishment. It underscores how eradicating many infectious diseases will require a deep…

For those like myself who design proteins for a living, the open secret is that well before AlphaFold, it was pretty much possible to get a good-enough structure of any particular …

Agreed, the UX of a magnet timer on the fridge beats using any kind of smart device for the task of setting kitchen timers. Most of them start a simple count up if not programmed f…

Agreed on the hopes that these methods lead to novel biocatalysts (but they aren’t quite there yet). David Baker’s lab has recently published on using their own diffusion model (RF…

Good point! And a related topic, we call the organism that lives happily in our gut E. coli and we also call the organisms that cause disease the same name. What’s the difference? …

The flip side of this is that progress in ML for biology is always going to be _slower_ than progress in ML for natural languages and images [1]. Humans are natural machines capabl…

Probably worth mentioning that David Baker’s lab released a similar model (predicts protein structure along with bound DNA and ligands), just a couple of months ago, and it is open…

As cool as this is, the word “microplastics” is a little misleading. There are dozens of types of plastic in common use, each made from a different monomer with a different chemica…