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A tech worker in Australia paid $3,000 to sequence his rescue dog's tumor, used…
Brief
vittorio (@IterIntellectus) recounts a tech worker in Australia who adopted a cancer-riddled rescue dog, paid $3,000 to sequence the tumor, and—using ChatGPT and AlphaFold with no biology background—designed a custom mRNA vaccine. After a 3-month ethics delay and a 10-hour trip to administer the shot, rosie's tumor halved and she recovered.
Why it matters
A tech worker in Australia paid $3,000 to sequence his rescue dog's tumor, used ChatGPT and AlphaFold with no biology background to identify mutated proteins, designed a custom mRNA cancer vaccine, waited 3 months for ethics approval, drove 10 hours to give rosie the first injection, and the tumor halved with the dog's coat improving.
Key details
- The author and a quoted genomics professor claim that one person with a chatbot and $3,000 'outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline' and argue 'if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?', concluding 'we are going to cure so many diseases.'