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#193 – Rob Reid: The Existential Threat of Engineered Viruses and Lab Leaks

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Protein Folding Is an Unbelievably Important Thing

The protein folding problem is a monstrous computational challenge that we seem to make just the most glacial progress on, I'm sorry, progress on for years and years. And so, you know, protein folding is an unbelievably important thing if you want to start thinking about therapeutics. It's the folding of the protein that tells us where the channels and the receptors and everything else are on that protein. So I see nothing but good in that. Well, let me ask you about fear and hope in this world.

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