Ayan

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Let the record show I risked my life (and the hat my grandmother crocheted for 8 year old Ayan) To get a sample from the fresh water vibrant microbial community living in the hollows of these rocks

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I am livingggg for the Pamela Anderson rebrand

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the group chat is coming for Ace 👀 c.c napoleon

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this and world peace 🌷

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you’ve heard of ChatGPT, but what about protein LLMs? For those new to proteins, they are the workhorse of all of your cells. They are made of amino acid chains that fold into precise, tiny molecular structures. Their form is super critical- for example, when they fold incorrectly, you can get diseases like Alzheimer's. Researchers at Meta (now Evolutionary Scale) took the same “attention” mechanism used to weigh which parts of text passages are most important for understanding context in LLMs and leveraged it for determining 3D protein structures directly from 2D data 60x faster than other methods. This is also really important because experimentally determined protein structures cover less than 0.03% of all known protein sequences and this is before we even understand their function. Thanks to the magic of LLMs being applied to protein sequences, we’re seeing huge breakthroughs in uncovering structure and function 🙏🏽

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I can’t believe this isn’t satire https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o.amp

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Tonight I’m thinking about Georgia O’Keeffe - the unexpected longevity queen She lived a long and healthy life, nearly reaching 100 years of age She was deeply connected to nature, passionate about healthy food and cooking + she spent a large part of her life at high altitudes in New Mexico There is research that suggests living at high altitudes increases cardiovascular health, possibly increasing life expectancy Or maybe she was just living a fulfilling and authentic life Maybe that’s the key 🌸

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I’ve been taking a photo of every single one I come across There’s something magical about these little sharing libraries across the city

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why hasn’t the cat distribution system found me these cats specifically

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this is your reminder that most microorganisms are not out to destroy you the majority are just here to vibe like this cute little tardigrade just minding its business

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this is how committed I am to growing this year

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This exemplifies the major tension in early stage biotech Most investors don’t have the attention span to play the long game that most “deep” biotech truly requires And so you almost incentivize the “Theranos Playbook” where the majority are riding waves of severely unsubstantiated hype in order to get funding and grow, or working on less complex, potentially less critical problems that don’t require as much capital Elizabeth just did it a little bit too well She wasn’t the problem, she was just a highly visible symptom of the situation

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gm from a girl who’s never had a matcha iced latte

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what i mean when i say I’m looking for fresh creative ideas

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how can you be anti-GMO when wooly mice exist?! JUST LOOK AT THEM 🥹 without genetic engineering, the cutest creatures ever wouldn’t exist who knew genetically modifying mice to express genes from wooly mammoths would be so adorable 4 months later and I’m still not over this

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this is where I post from

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speaking of Nara Smith and making things from scratch…their antigen visual does look suspiciously like mac and cheese 🧐 https://www.chaidiscovery.com/news/introducing-chai-2

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This is such an exciting time for biology x computation from this new paper: “reliably designing functional antibodies from scratch” Chai-2 is the Nara Smith of functional antibody design You can design high-affinity binders to novel targets in <two weeks with zero prior data at >100x hit rate to prior methods

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need to spend more time looking into microscopes 🔬

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