Written by Weishi MengSeptember 19, 2022September 20, 2022

BOOK REVIEW. TOPOLOGICAL DYNAMICS IN METAMODEL DISCOVERY WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. AUTHOR: ARIEL FERNANDEZ

REVIEW BY WEISHI MENG Topological Dynamics in Metamodel Discovery with Artificial Intelligence: From Biomedical to Cosmological Technologies. Author: Ariel Fernández Publication: December, 2022 Publisher: Taylor and Francis, Chapman and Hall/CRC ISBN 9781032366326 (hardcover) The forthcoming book by Ariel Fernandez reveals the sheer breadth of his intellectual acumen. It seems the author is reinventing himself one more time in what […]

Written by Weishi MengSeptember 28, 2021September 28, 2021

Peter Daszak is a primary person of interest in the investigation of the lab origin of Covid-19, says Ariel Fernández

When it comes to COVID-19, Ariel Fernandez seems to know what he is talking about. In a short timespan he has published numerous scientific papers on the subject with many more in the making. One of Ariel Fernandez’ papers, one of the most widely read scientific papers, has found a major detractor. His name […]

Written by Weishi MengFebruary 5, 2021February 6, 2021

Have the COVID-19 vaccines adopted the right antigen? Interview with Dr. Ariel Fernandez

Our guest today is Dr. Ariel Fernandez, the former Karl F. Hasselmann Chair in Bioengineering at Rice University, now director of the Daruma Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Pharmaceutical Research. Ariel Fernandez authored nearly 500 peer-reviewed professional papers, four books and several biotech patents. He recently turned his attention to COVID-19 for obvious reasons, and […]

Written by Weishi MengDecember 4, 2018January 20, 2019

Genetically Edited Babies: The bizarre defense by Harvard Professor George Church

By Ariel Fernandez As a former professor in the Bioengineering Department at Rice University I was a colleague of Michael W. Deem, the Ph. D. mentor of He Jiankui. During a recent interview by Science Transparency, I became acquainted with a defense of He Jiankui by Prof. George Church, a leading figure from Harvard and […]

Written by Weishi MengNovember 30, 2018January 20, 2019

CRISPR babies: a US connection? Interview with former Rice University professor

The genetic editing of human embryos through a molecular biology manipulation known as CRISPR surely sent shock waves across the globe. Many felt that He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who carried out the experiments had opened Pandora’s box. Yet, as people had now some time to ponder over the events, the scientific establishment has […]

Written by Weishi MengNovember 28, 2018January 20, 2019

Genetic Editing of Human Embryos: Pandora’s Box Has Opened

The picture shows the cover page of a doctoral dissertation, with Professors Ariel Fernandez and Michael W. Deem in the bioengineering thesis committee at Rice University. There was no genetic editing of human embryos at the time, just theory, bioinformatics, computational bioengineering and speculation. Michael W. Deem was also the doctoral advisor of He […]

Written by Weishi MengSeptember 12, 2018November 28, 2018

The Birth of Epistructural Biology – Ariel Fernandez, Annalen der Physik, September Cover, 2018.

Linus Pauling, the most gifted physical chemist that ever lived, once said that the realization of the relevance of the hydrogen bond, a relatively weak molecular force, gave birth to Structural Biology. He also said that there was more to it, a sort of meta-analysis of structural biology that was still missing. This he conveyed to Oktay […]

Written by Weishi MengMay 28, 2018June 9, 2018

The Web-Based Sewage of Science Fed by a Failed Peer Review System

We love science, we also know that getting and keeping our scientific work published in a good venue can be an arduous task. This is true now more than ever due to a lack of leadership in the scientific establishment and to the advent in 2010 of a new player in the game: the angry […]

Written by Weishi MengSeptember 10, 2017October 12, 2017

Cancer Cure Within Reach: Our Gratitude to Ariel Fernandez and Especially to Bert Vogelstein

The immune checkpoint blocker pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck) has proven most successful to treat solid tumors harboring a DNA mismatch repair (MMR) deficiency. This striking result recently reported by Luis Diaz Jr., Bert Vogelstein and their collaborators was anticipated a couple of years before by Dr. Vogelstein, a towering figure in oncological research. Ariel Fernandez […]

Written by Weishi MengJuly 15, 2017July 25, 2017

Book Review on “A Mathematical Approach to Protein Biophysics” by Ridgway Scott and Ariel Fernandez: An Introduction to AF’s Solution to the Protein Folding Problem

A new book by Ridgway Scott and Ariel Fernandez is coming out. Its title “A Mathematical Approach to Protein Biophysics” (Springer, 2017) feels unusual at first. Why do we need a mathematical approach to understand proteins? Perhaps we need to be reminded that the major problems in molecular biophysics, such as the protein folding problem, […]

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