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Rather than treating DNA, RNA, proteins, and epigenetics as separate problems, biological AI should connect information across all of them.

Radical Numerics is building multimodal models that bridge across biological modalities instead of tackling each in isolation. ✦ AI generated

Eric Nguyen · The Generalist · 2026-08-04 · original ↗

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Radical Numerics is now building models that can connect information across DNA, RNA, proteins, epigenetics, and other parts of biology, rather than treating each as a separate problem.

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