Thread by @wolfejosh

1/ INCREDIBLE!

TECH of SCIENCE
Matter that matters––
from Lux family founder Sriram Subramanian

Using cutting-edge imaging TECH from his new venture (Gandeeva) found + funded by Lux partner @AGoulburn

Revealed here
the actual ATOMIC structure
of spike protein of Omicron...

2/ This is 2.8 Angstrom (just a few atoms)

To understand how small this is
1 human hair = ~1,000,0000 Angstrom

We are getting resolution at the scale of atoms that make up a virus that are one-one-millionth the width of a human hair...

3/ To put this in perspective
it would be like looking at NYC (Manhattan 25km long) from SPACE by satellite
and being able to precisely image
and see a tiny single screw (25mm)!

4/ Here is @WIRED covering how our Lux family founders work in the TECH of SCIENCE (cutting-edge imaging) is converging with cutting-edge AI... wired.com/story/ai-softw…

5/ And here is the source scientific paper revealing the data from the cutting-edge CRYO-EM

(you can think of it a bit like 'The Matrix' bullet time but for seeing atoms)...
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

6/ "Subramaniam’s Omicron paper included results AI hasn’t yet conquered—a combo structure for a spike bound to the human protein it targets-–the variant’s structural changes allow it to bind host cells more strongly while also being less vulnerable to antibodies...

7/....from previous strains, a combination that appears to explain why Omicron can overrun even highly vaccinated communities."