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   Rivercell raises $25M to build an AI virtual cell model

   Rivercell has raised a $25M seed round led by HV, with HCVC, Alven and Bpifrance Digital Venture participating. The money will fund its data platform, a larger wet lab in Paris and its AI Virtual Cell programme, which the company describes as a world model of the cell that predicts how a cell changes after treatment. Rivercell says no dataset of comparable scale exists for how cells respond to drugs over time, so it plans to generate its own by filming living cells through each experiment and reading their gene activity, with the model choosing the next experiment and the company building its own instruments.

   The Next Web · 🔥 9
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   Eric Betzig Warns AlphaFold Alone Cannot Solve Drug Discovery

   Nobel laureate Eric Betzig argued in a podcast interview that using AlphaFold protein structures alone for drug discovery is unlikely to succeed, because cells are dynamic, crowded, multiscale systems. He proposed combining live-cell 4D/5D imaging, self-supervised vision Transformers and zebrafish models to study drug effects from molecules to whole organs, while also criticizing academic incentives built around papers, grants and peer review.

   MIT科技评论中文 · 🔥 0

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