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Virtual cells
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Modern whole-cell models can contain tens of thousands of parameters and simulate millions of molecular interactions simultaneously.In 1952, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley sat watching voltage traces flicker across an oscilloscope, capturing something no one had seen before: the precise mathematical choreography of a nerve firing. By 2024, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative had committed over 1,000 GPUs specifically to AI virtual cell development, while ETH Zürich's new Alps supercomputer brought 435 petaflops of raw computational power to bear on the problem. 2025 – Commercial applications mature with companies like Turbine running millions of virtual drug screens, Ginkgo Bioworks integrating AI-powered cell design, and cancer centers deploying patient-specific digital twins for therapy selection.
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