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Hsu: Virtual cell models do not need mechanistic explanations to be useful
“And I would say similarly with a virtual cell model, it may not tell me literally why, just like a alpha fold doesn't tell me literally why did the protein fold this way and how, but it just told me the end state and it was reasonably accurate. I think that wo…”
Patrick Hsu Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 45:36 Faster Science, Better Drugs
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Hsu: Academic incentives actively discourage cross-disciplinary research collaboration
“Folks have their own incentive structures, right? They need to publish their own papers. They need to do their own thing and, you know, make their own discovery and, You're not really incentivized to work together.”
Patrick Hsu Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 3:52 Faster Science, Better Drugs
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Hsu: Research groups struggle to excel at more than two disciplines
“It's very hard for individual research groups or individual companies to be good at more than two things, right?”
Patrick Hsu Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 2:39 Faster Science, Better Drugs
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