who is ready for day 2 livecast of the all-in summit aka my personality in a speaker lineup:

brain armstrong (web3)
gwenyth paltrow (lifestyle / wellness)
mr beast (content)
larry summers (economics)
nicole paulk (molecular biology / genetics)
brad gerstner (fun)

+ others

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nicole paulk on using living medicines (using viruses for gene therapy aka as medicines) — the newest era of modern medicine following chemical medicines (eg advil) and protein medicines (eg humira and other arthritis meds)

nicole: most traditional gene therapy approaches typically target very rare disorders that affect 100 or 200 people per year, but what if we asked: can we have a universal gene therapy?

her explanation of using gene therapy to retrain your immune system is world class. a cast recap simply wouldn’t suffice.

nicole: we need operators and manufacturers and people who are really good at building and scaling to come into biotech because PhDs aren’t good at that and if you want these to get to market, we need you.

jcal: what about gene therapy for people who aren’t sick?

nicole: nightvision, that’s easy. ability to metabolize food from another environment, so you can consume foods if we live on other planets (Mars!!). male pattern baldness. lots of beauty things like wrinkles, cellulite. mental health is a huge one, too.

nicole: gene therapy for blindness improved time to walk through a maze from 200+ seconds to 11 seconds, and the same patient is now driving and walking among us. in your lifetime, I guarantee that you will receive a viral gene medicine.

🤯🤯🤯

nicole: most viruses are very good at getting inside of us and only a few of them are bad enough to get you sick — and those are obviously the most well known

*sounds like the dating pool in LA per my girl friends* lol jk

The future of biotech is so exciting (and a bit scary tbh)!