Eric Topol

Is it kind of a precursor to it?

How do you conceive this?

Because this is such a complex... I mean, it is the fundamental unit of life, but it's also so much more complex than a protein or an RNA because...

not only all the things inside the cell, inside all these organelles and nucleus, but then there's all the outside interactions.

So, this is a bold challenge, right?

Oh, absolutely.

Now, I think

You already mentioned something that's quite, well, two things from what you just touched on.

One, of course, how vital it is to have this inner or interdisciplinary capability because you do need expertise across these vital areas.

But the convergence, I mean, I love your term nodal biology and the fact that there's all these diseases like you were talking about, they do converge and nodal is a good term to highlight that.

But

It's not, of course, as you mentioned, we have genome editing, which allows to look at lots of different genome perturbations, like the single letter change that you found in one pathogenic critical mutation.

There's also the AI world, which is blossoming like I've never seen.

In fact, you know, I had a science this week about

learning the language of life with AI and how there's been like 15 new foundation models, DNA, proteins, RNA, ligands, all their interactions and the beginning of the cell story too with the human.

So, this is exploding.

And so, as you said, the expertise in computer science.

And then, this whole idea that you could take these powerful tools

and do, as you said, which is the need to accelerate.

We just can't sit around here when there's so much discovery work to be done with the scalability.