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Engineering the human, together.

A unified, open model of human biology — from subatomic particles to the whole body.

So we can design vaccines, therapies, and adaptive immunity at the speed of mutation. Built in the open, by anyone, anywhere — and free for everyone, forever.

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Mission

Model the human body as one coherent system — across every scale.

Model human biology end-to-end: from quarks and electrons up to molecules, cells, tissues, organs, systems, and whole-body physiology. Make that model precise enough that we can engineer, reverse-engineer, and re-engineer biology with the same rigor we apply to silicon and software.

The end goal: when the next fast-mutating pathogen appears, a candidate vaccine is hours away — not months or years. And eventually, an adaptive immune layer that generalizes to threats we haven't seen yet.

Atlas One · Host Biology

The same system, viewed at every magnification.

Biology at one level constrains and explains the next. The model has to be coherent across all of them — physics under chemistry, chemistry under cells, cells under organs, organs under us.

Level 01

Subatomic

Quarks, electrons, photons — the substrate of all chemistry. Photon · Proton · Electron

Level 02

Atomic

Elements and bonds that make biology physically possible. Hydrogen · Carbon · Nitrogen · Oxygen · Sodium · Potassium · Calcium · Magnesium · Iron · Phosphorus · Sulfur · Chloride · Copper · Zinc · Selenium · Iodine

Level 03

Molecular

Proteins, nucleic acids, lipids — the working parts of cells. Serotonin · IL-6 · Cortisol · Insulin · TNF-α · ATP · GR · NF-κB · Insulin R · STAT3 · SERT · Cx43 · HCN4 · NCX1 · PLN · RyR2 · SERCA2a · Troponin · Albumin · Collagen · IgG · MHC II · EPO · Fibrinogen · Cholesterol · Hemoglobin · Leptin · Glucagon · Vasopressin · Prostaglandins · Nitric Oxide · Thyroid Hormones · AMPK · Dopamine · Norepinephrine · Epinephrine · Acetylcholine · GABA · Glutamate · Histamine · Complement C3 · Platelet · Angiotensin II · β1-AR

Level 05

Tissue

Cells specialized and organized into functional fabrics. Bone Marrow · Intestinal Epithelium · Myocardium · Endocardium · Conduction System · Cortical Bone · Alveolus · Glomerulus · Hepatic Lobule · Arterial Wall · Synapse · Islet of Langerhans

Level 06

Organ

Tissues coordinated into a single functional unit. Heart · Brain · Kidney · Liver · Lung · Pancreas · Spleen · Thymus · Adrenal Gland · Thyroid · Stomach · Small Intestine · Large Intestine · Hippocampus

Level 07

System

Immune, nervous, circulatory, endocrine — networks of organs. Cardiovascular · Nervous · Immune · Respiratory · Digestive · Renal · Endocrine · Musculoskeletal · Lymphatic · Integumentary · Reproductive

Level 08

Whole Body

An integrated organism — the unit we actually live in.

Atlas Two · Pathogens & Microbes

Every threat. Every microbe. Modeled the same way.

A vaccine is a designed interface between a host and a pathogen. To build that interface in hours, both sides need to be modeled at the same depth.

The Pathogen Atlas catalogs every microbe and pathogen that touches human biology — its structure, mechanism of harm, immune signature, and mutation pressure. The same scale ladder, viewed from the other side of the encounter.

Class 01

Viruses

Influenza, coronaviruses, HIV, herpes, ebola — fast mutation, highest-priority threat class. HIV-1 · Hepatitis B · Influenza A · SARS-CoV-2 · Dengue · HCV · HPV-16

Class 02

Bacteria

TB, staph, strep, mycobacteria — antibiotic resistance and cell-cell warfare with the immune system. S. pneumoniae · M. tuberculosis · S. aureus · E. coli · C. tetani

Class 03

Fungi

Candida, aspergillus, cryptococcus — emerging threats with few drug classes. C. albicans · A. fumigatus

Class 04

Parasites

Plasmodium, helminths, trypanosomes — global disease burden, complex life cycles. P. falciparum

Class 05

Prions

CJD, kuru — edge cases that stress-test the model. PrPSc

Class 06

Microbiome

Gut, skin, respiratory commensals — not every microbe is a threat; many are partners. L. rhamnosus GG

Together with the Medicine and Vaccine Atlases, the four open atlases form a training corpus for AI agents working on the next vaccine — and an educational foundation for human researchers, clinicians, and students, in every part of the world.

Atlas Three · The Medicine Atlas

An encyclopedia of every medicine humanity has used to heal.

The third atlas catalogs the interface between host and pathogen — every drug, vaccine, herb, food, and traditional therapy. Modern pharmaceuticals and 3,000-year-old healing systems held to the same standard: what it is, how it works, where the evidence stands.

Modern

Pharmaceuticals, biologics, vaccines, gene therapy — the science of the last two centuries.

Traditional & Cultural

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, indigenous traditions — millennia of refined healing knowledge.

Food & Nutrition

Spices, fermented foods, dietary patterns — the medicines we already eat.

Atlas Four · The Vaccine Atlas

Every vaccine humanity has built, by platform.

The fourth atlas catalogs prophylactic vaccines — organized by delivery platform. Each entry covers antigen design, mechanism of immunity, clinical efficacy, safety profile, cold-chain requirements, and connections to the Human and Pathogen atlases.

Platform 01

mRNA

Lipid-nanoparticle mRNA encoding spike or other antigen. Fastest to design, highest immunogenicity. mRNA-1273 · BNT162b2

Platform 02

Viral Vector

Replication-incompetent adenovirus delivering antigen gene. Single dose feasible; VITT risk. AZD1222 · Ervebo

Platform 03

Recombinant Subunit

Purified protein + adjuvant. Longest safety track record; no nucleic acid. NVX-CoV2373

Platform 04

Inactivated

Whole-virion killed vaccine. Refrigerator-stable; broad antigen coverage; alum adjuvant. CoronaVac · Rabies Vaccine

Platform 05

Live-Attenuated

Replication-competent attenuated organism. Strongest cellular immunity; trained innate immunity. BCG · Rotarix

Platform 06

Toxoid

Formalin-inactivated bacterial toxins. Durable humoral immunity; aluminium adjuvant. Tetanus Toxoid

Platform 07

VLP

Recombinant virus-like particles — no nucleic acid, dense multivalent antigen display. Gardasil-9

Capabilities

What the model unlocks.

If we have coherent multi-scale models of both atlases — and the AI to reason over them — four capabilities become tractable.

Engineer

Design new biology — proteins, cells, tissues, immune responses — from first principles, with predictable behavior.

Reverse-engineer

Take a pathogen, disease, or healthy mechanism and recover its mechanism end-to-end.

Re-engineer

Repair, optimize, or replace components of human biology with the confidence of a hardware swap.

Immunize

Design adaptive defenses that generalize across fast-mutating threats — not chase each variant in retrospect.

Why now

Three thresholds crossed at once.

For most of history, a project this ambitious would have been science fiction. In the last decade, three different fields each crossed a threshold — and they did it at roughly the same time.

The cost of slowness is now legible.

COVID-19 measured the gap between pathogen and vaccine in millions of lives. Next time, that gap should be hours.

Compute and AI are ready.

Protein folding, molecular dynamics, multi-scale simulation, and foundation models for biology have all crossed feasibility thresholds.

Biology is increasingly engineerable.

CRISPR, mRNA platforms, synthetic biology, and high-throughput assays make biology behave more like a programmable system every year.

Join the effort

Anyone. Anywhere. Any contribution.

This is a project for humanity, by humanity. No matter your discipline, your country, or your stage of career — there is a way to contribute. The model needs every kind of mind.

Biologists
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Clinicians
AI / ML researchers
Software engineers
Data engineers
Designers
Writers & educators
Translators
Ethicists
Citizen scientists

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Donations fund freedom — for everyone.

The model, the data, and the tools will always be free. Donations pay for the compute, the researchers, and the infrastructure that keeps it that way. Every contribution — small or large — moves the timeline forward.

Funding channels — opening soon

We're setting up transparent, accountable channels for donations (open finances, public ledger). In the meantime: star the repo, share the mission, and reach out if you'd like to fund early work directly.