Models of Life
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A science fiction story about biology and computational models.
Back to Articles Back to Articles Models of Life Words by Abhishaike Mahajan Fiction Issue 04 Back to Articles Models of Life In the 2020s, nobody paid much attention to foundation models. But sixty years later, they were being used to design medicines, gene therapies and, eventually, new forms of life. Example H2 Example H3 2024 Statistical models of organisms have existed for decades. The earliest ones relied on simple linear regression and attempted to correlate genetic variations with observable traits or disease risks — such as drug metabolization rates or cancer susceptibility . As compu
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