Guy With a Chatbot Cured His Dog's Cancer
Tech guy in Australia adopts a cancer-ridden rescue dog with months to live.
Pays $3k to sequence her tumor DNA, feeds it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold, designs a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch. Zero biology background.
A genomics professor is "gobsmacked" that some puppy lover pulled this off alone.
Red tape took longer than building the vaccine. Three months to get ethics approval. He drives 10 hours for her first injection.
Tumor halves. Coat gets glossy. Dog is alive.
Professor: "if we can do this for a dog, why aren't we rolling this out to humans?"
The entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline just got lapped by one guy and a chatbot for three grand.
This is wild. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/tech-boss-uses-ai-and-chatgpt-to-create-cancer-vaccine-for-his-dying-dog/news-story/292a21bcbe93efa17810bfcfcdfadbf7
A tech guy with no biology background used AI tools to design a custom cancer vaccine for his dog and it worked, making the case that personalized mRNA medicine could be democratized right now if institutions would get out of the way.
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