Reposted by @heathro.bsky.social
A $28.6M ARPA-H grant is funding a huge project to understand how proteins clump together. This clumping is linked to diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. They'll create the biggest dataset ever (10B measurements on 50K proteins) to predict these issues sooner.
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$28.6M ARPA-H grant funds protein aggregation dataset for neurodegenerative disease prediction
A significant $28.6 million grant from ARPA-H has been awarded to create the largest protein aggregation dataset in biomedical research. This project aims to better understand how intrinsically disord