#083 - Why Drug Discovery Has To Go To Space with Mass Balance Founder Dr Toby Call
Why does drug discovery need to go to space? In this week's episode of GAEA Talks, the second of season five and the second filmed in our new London studio, Graeme Scott sits down with Dr Toby Call, founder of Mass Balance, former co-founder of Chronomics, and alumnus of the International Space University.
Toby explains why over forty percent of the proteins in the human body have no fixed structure, why this "dark proteome" includes some of the most important targets in cancer and Alzheimer's, and why AlphaFold and the rest of the current AI drug discovery stack cannot model them. He then…
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