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If the protein is a novel it does not matter, because it has no normal variants in the nature.


Couldn’t the underlying tech be applied to non-novel proteins by a bad actor?


Someone could fine-tune a model on pairs of existing proteins and their misfolded prions and then ask the system to come up with new prions for other proteins. ChatGPT found these 4 companies that will produce proteins for you just based on digital DNA that you send them:

- Genewiz (Azenta Life Sciences)

- Thermo Fisher Scientific (GeneArt)

- Tierra Biosciences

- NovoPro Labs


Whelp, time to move to a small island in the middle of the Pacific.


One of the few cases where Mars actually is a decent planet B.




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