Solved 50-Year-Old Mystery Could ‘Dramatically’ Change War on Cancer
On the day our technological AI overlords decide to finally end the human race, we will be able to tout the feather in our cap that at one point they helped us solve some of the world’s toughest mysteries.
Such was the case with a science problem that the medical and scientific community has been struggling with for more than 5 decades. The problem of “mapping the three-dimensional shapes of the proteins that are responsible for diseases from cancer to Covid-19” appears to now have a solution – thanks to AI.
Google’s Deepmind now says it has created a program called AlphaFold that can solve the mapping problems in “a matter of days”, according to a new report from The Independent. If it works as claimed, the solution will have arrived “decades” before it was expected, the piece notes.
Of the 200 million known proteins, only a small amount are understood. The task of figuring out how each individual protein works is time consuming and expensive. This development could dramatically move our understanding forward further, and faster.
DeepMind claims that “AlphaFold determined the shape of around two-thirds of the proteins with accuracy comparable to laboratory experiments.”
The 14th Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP14) partnered with Google for the project. The group is comprised of scientists who have been working on a solution for protein mapping since 1994, more than 25 years.
Dr John Moult, chair of CASP14, commented: “Proteins are extremely complicated molecules, and their precise three-dimensional structure is key to the many roles they perform, for example the insulin that regulates sugar levels in our blood and the antibodies that help us fight infections.”
He continued: “Even tiny rearrangements of these vital molecules can have catastrophic effects on our health, so one of the most efficient ways to understand disease and find new treatments is to study the proteins involved. There are tens of thousands of human proteins and many billions in other species, including bacteria and viruses, but working out the shape of just one requires expensive equipment and can take years.”
Nobel Laureate and Professor Venki Ramakrishnan said: “This computational work represents a stunning advance on the protein-folding problem, a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology. It has occurred decades before many people in the field would have predicted. It will be exciting to see the many ways in which it will fundamentally change biological research.”
The next step will be submitting a paper detailing the findings for peer-review.
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Nov 24, 2020 The Truth About Cancer Presents: Health Nuggets – Cannabis & Cancer
In this brief video, you’ll discover how cannabis is one of the most powerful tools when it comes to fighting cancer? Did you know that your body naturally produces many of the compounds found in cannabis? This natural system – called the endocannabinoid system – is at the cutting edge of today’s anti-cancer research.
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Burns Matkin
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That’s all well and good except that puffing on a joint a few times a day and claiming it is medicine is the goal of the pot crowd. No dosage, no real diagnosis, no substance controls as to potency and quantity, and no serious study of results. Most pot “medicine” isn’t. It is an excuse to legalize a recreational drug.
As in all drugs there are side effects some harmful.
Like other “woke” ideas, questioning the efficacy or lack there of is not allowed. I suspect that Brian James is a user trying to justify his habit by the way he wrote his comment. Well, Brian?
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mark tapley
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This is just more subterfuge on the never ending war on cancer. The basic mechanism for cancer has been known since the early 1900’s. In the 1950’s Biochemist Ernest Krebbs confirmed that cancer is a metabolic disease cause by a deficiency of vitamin B 17. Indigeous groups that get this nutrient in their daily diet do not get cancer. Bears in the wild are another good example. In the wild it is very rare for bears to get cancer but in captivity and eating a processed diet it is very common.
The famous British doctor Albert Schweitzer noted that the African natives had many diseases and some were malnourished but he never saw cancer until treating some that had been living and working on a plantation where they had a western diet.
Big Pharma and the medical industry are not interested in prevention by a natural substance. There is no money in that. They want everyone to be chronically ill under medical treatment and anti-depressants while waiting for the Zionist criminals to provide them with another fake vaccine.
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