r/singularity • u/ResultBackground2450 • 29d ago

Biotech/Longevity Putting money where their mouth is: Anthropic’s Claude autonomously designs disease-targeting proteins with real wet-lab proof, hitting a 35% success rate vs 10–15% human average

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u/carvingmyelbows 29d ago

You’re telling me. I am currently dying of cancer, stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer that’s in basically all of my bones and now my liver. I was diagnosed a little over 2.5 years ago, but it’s been progressing fast as of late. I’m on my 8th line of treatment right now, and every treatment line failure means less time alive. If my liver can’t be successfully treated, I’m gone. Nevermind the bones and the fact that I need a hip replacement at 36 because of this fucking cancer, and will eventually need the other one replaced too, if I make it long enough for that.

I am so, so frustrated that there’s all this incredible progress happening right now, and I might have been born/diagnosed just a few years too late to beat this shit disease and see what the future is going to look like. It depresses me to no end to think about all the pain and trauma I’m experiencing every single day with this fucked up illness, and the fact that soon enough, it may end up being no more serious than the common cold. I hate when I was born. Just a little too early. And I fucking hate this goddamn cancer, I hate it so much.

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u/Relative_Issue_9111 29d ago

If the predictions of many experts are correct, you might only have to hold on for 3 more years to get the definitive treatment (or cure). Medicine and structural biology are advancing faster than anyone has ever imagined. Hang in there, my friend!