The first two stories this week are mindblowing. Huge if true, as they say.
Australian Tech Founder Uses ChatGPT and AlphaFold to Design Dog Cancer Vaccine — Tumours Shrink by 75%. Originally seen here and video here:
A Sydney data engineer with no background in biology has used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design what researchers are calling the world's first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for a dog, and the results have stunned the scientists who helped make it.
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In 2024, the entire neuronal diagram of the fruit-fly brain–some 140,000 neurons and 50 million connections–was mapped. Later research showed that the map could be used to predict behavior. Now, Eon Systems a firm with some of the scientists involved in the fruit-fly research and with the goal of uploading a human brain has announced that they uploaded the fruit fly brain to a digital environment.
The digital fly appears to behave in the digital environment in reasonably fly like ways–this is not a simulation, the fly’s “sensors” are being activated by the digital environment and the neurons are responding.