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[–] 42 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Universal coronavirus vaccine, a vaccine against everything would induce all sorts of autoimmune disorders.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    There's another universal kind-of-vaccine in development, which doesn't tell your body what to recognize but instead tells your body how to react (primes the immune system to respond faster to respiratory infections with localized antibodies, etc)

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  • [+] 23 points 5 months ago* (6 children)
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, Protein design is absurdly complicated and time consuming. Collaborative computing programs like folding at home have helped a lot but its still like trying to find a grain of sand in a desert. Having a well tuned AI help narrow down what needs additional attention via other computer models or even moving past computer models is a reasonable use of a well tuned specific AI. Not these general purpose LLMs that just tell you what you want to hear.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'm anti AI but i have to give it to the technology, for once, it's used for something good and for a task no one wanted to manually do, with incredible results

    Until the sector is regulated i'll just say this never happened

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Technically this probably isn't AI but rather ML (machine learning) which is something that made great strides in science already in the past decade or so. E.g. alphafold, a program to predict folding of protein sequences predates all LLM crap and has become a cornerstone of anything protein expression.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    So when I talk about LLM, I mean in first line ChatGPT since it was the big event bringing LLMs to the public.

    Alphafolds first version came out in 2018, ChatGPT was only released in 2022. I don't know where AI image generation comes into this, but that wasn't my point anyway.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    "We've converted vaccine development from being reactive to being future proof. Our vaccines will continue to provide protection against viruses even as they mutate into new strains," said Professor Jonathan Heeney from the Lab of Viral Zoonotics, University of Cambridge's Department of Veterinary Medicine, the scientific lead of the research.

    "We've overcome the problem of traditional vaccines, which have limited protection. It means we can escape the constant cycle of chasing the virus variants circulating in humans and updating the vaccines to try to catch up, like a dog chasing its tail."

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Safe with no side effects does not mean that it works. A glass of water is safe with no side effects.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The original press release stated this was done using machine learning, which has been a mainstay in biomedical science for a while. It's what "AI" used to refer to before the current generation of bullshit generators.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's a jet injector.

    Numerous studies have found cross-infection of diseases from jet injections. An experiment using mice, published in 1985, showed that jet injectors would frequently transmit the viral infection lactate dehydrogenase elevating virus (LDV) from one mouse to another.[16] Another study used the device on a calf, then tested the fluid remaining in the injector for blood. Every injector they tested had detectable blood in a quantity sufficient to pass on a virus such as hepatitis B.[15]

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, right. The vaccine. The vaccine for COVID. The vaccine chosen specifically to kill COVID. COVID’s vaccine. That vaccine?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No, because Vaccines don't kill Covid. Vaccines teach your immune system to respond better and on the whole have better outcomes. If vaccines killed Covid, then they would give a shot to everyone with Long Covid and cure them.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Afaik long covid is caused not by covid being still in the person but rather brain / lung / etc. damage it has done.

    Anyways vaccines don't kill the virus so you are right.

    Viruses aren't alive anyways...

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Will anti vaxxers find AI formulated vaccines more or less abhorrent?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Imagine making that avd getting reduced to "ai designed" lol

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