mRNA based stuff is indeed incredible, no more randomly just trying things out, it’s really the future IMO.
But for cancer it will just be a tool in the toolbox , I mean you gotta get those samples and cancer change maybe a thousand times a minute, which strain is the “bad” one? Etc. etc. etc.
One theoretical way to stop cancer altogether would be to remove the possibility for telomere lengthening (remove the production of telomerase) and “manually” allow the growth of only stem cell from time to time.
But that’s a long time from now if ever it can be done.
Oh yeah, cancer is incredibility complex. I’m not remotely qualified to predict how this will be used.
I’m on the tech side of things and the ability to read and write arbitrary amino acid sequences along with machine learning models trained to predict (ex: AlphaFold) and generate (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45051-2) protein structures is absolutely mindblowing.
It’s like we’ve been working on computers by striking flint at their CPU and listening to the traces vibrate in order to interpret the output and now someone has figured out how to plug in a keyboard and monitor.
We’re barely scratching the surface with these techniques and we’ve found multiple ways to make an AIDS vaccine and we’re discovering new ways to beat cancer. The rapid development of the COVID vaccine, thanks to mRNA, likely saved millions or tens of millions of people and prevented a global depression.
It’s such an incredible time for human advancement, it’s a shame we’re all drowning in social media fueled toxicity and people don’t see it.
mRNA based stuff is indeed incredible, no more randomly just trying things out, it’s really the future IMO.
But for cancer it will just be a tool in the toolbox , I mean you gotta get those samples and cancer change maybe a thousand times a minute, which strain is the “bad” one? Etc. etc. etc.
One theoretical way to stop cancer altogether would be to remove the possibility for telomere lengthening (remove the production of telomerase) and “manually” allow the growth of only stem cell from time to time.
But that’s a long time from now if ever it can be done.
Oh yeah, cancer is incredibility complex. I’m not remotely qualified to predict how this will be used.
I’m on the tech side of things and the ability to read and write arbitrary amino acid sequences along with machine learning models trained to predict (ex: AlphaFold) and generate (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45051-2) protein structures is absolutely mindblowing.
It’s like we’ve been working on computers by striking flint at their CPU and listening to the traces vibrate in order to interpret the output and now someone has figured out how to plug in a keyboard and monitor.
We’re barely scratching the surface with these techniques and we’ve found multiple ways to make an AIDS vaccine and we’re discovering new ways to beat cancer. The rapid development of the COVID vaccine, thanks to mRNA, likely saved millions or tens of millions of people and prevented a global depression.
It’s such an incredible time for human advancement, it’s a shame we’re all drowning in social media fueled toxicity and people don’t see it.