🔮 Protein zoo; rebounds; the Kardashians vs Instagram; exponential health; reversing aging, games, space travel ++ #383

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The near future

👏 To boldly fold
DeepMind’s AlphaFold has been enlisted by researchers to “predict the structures of some 200 million proteins from 1 million species, covering nearly every known protein on the planet.” The multi-terabyte dataset will be freely available as a kind of public good for researchers anywhere. We should expect to see complementary tools springing up on this data set to make its use and exploration easier—and more breakthroughs in key areas of biology following soon.

I love that this dataset is freely accessible. It is an approach to science that will benefit human we…