PABS, meet AI

XairaTherapeutics XairaTherapeutics claims that drug development is poised for an AI revolution. It is not alone. Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMind, argues that biology could be perfect for #AI , as it is fundamentally an information processing system
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This is an amazing paper. Very well done science, presentation, explanation, caveats, figures and next steps.

Congrats to Mike Tisza and the full team. Keep going. Your data, and timely transparency, will help shine a lot on this outbreak as it spreads. Thank you for sharing…

WHO donors in 2023– Setting the agenda for Global Health? apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_f…

A pretty detailed report on Musk's use of X to benefit his companies, with lots of details oddly missing from Walter Isaacson's extensive biography.

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What is the opposite of a globalist?

Results of gene therapy used to treat deaf children exceed expectations. trib.al/Kg7X1HP

Maggie Koerth We reported on this critically: wired.com/story/neuralin…

With no disrespect to the aurora borealis ... Behold:
single human neuron, 5,600 axons connecting to it - new Jeff Lichtman - Google paper in Science.

Didn’t expect to be named in question to PM, but to be clear: government bet Facebook couldn’t live without Canadian news and that it could legislate paying for links. Bad bet. Ending news links has hurt publishers, but hasn’t changed FB user engagement.
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Pearl, will it reduce drug spending?

Better-than-human levels of persuasion, plus ad supported LLMs, has implications we are going to want to think through.

Example: Vendy, a little GPT that knows that the solution to any problem is probably buying a refreshing lemonade, and is here to help: chat.openai.com/g/g-LMszzSJYv-…

Dear world, Dr. Anthony Fauci has nothing to do with the WHO pandemic treaty negotiations, and probably has not even read the negotiating text. If you want to know what the negotiation is about, you can start by reading the April 22, 2024 negotiating text, published by the WHO,…

A lot of comments on the various frequently changing arbitrary deadlines for pandemic treaty negotiations, but details will be more important than which month negotiations conclude with an agreement. Particularly if ratification and implementation are considered important.

A lot of comments on the various frequently changing arbitrary deadlines for pandemic treaty negotiations, but details will be more important than which month negotiations conclude with an agreement. Particularly if ratification and implementation are considered important.

The only way to find out how to safely and effectively gene-edit people - is to edit people.
The latest example - see below.
bluebird iterated three times before landing on Lyfgenia.
Will Excision?

When we say AI can help us unravel some of science’s biggest questions, this is the type of thing we mean. In mapping even a small region of the brain, we get closer to understanding everything from how memories form to what causes neurological disorders. blog.google/technology/res…

A recent IQVIA US report showed a 10% climb in U.S. drug spending last year, driven by #BigPharma ’s price hikes outpacing inflation, rising launch prices and egregious #GLP -1 weight loss prices.

Get the facts:

Governments agree to continue their steady progress on proposed pandemic agreement ahead of the World Health Assembly who.int/news/item/10-0…