Vijay Pande, partner at a16z, published this post in Scientific American explaining how we’re moving from pure discovery to a more structured engineering approach for biological. “With design, however, we can plan and progress very systematically along a roadmap and […]
Researchers Patrick Collison and Michael Nielsen ran a survey of scientists to conclude: “Over the past century, we’ve vastly increased the time and money invested in science, but in scientists’ own judgement, we’re producing the most important breakthroughs at a […]
“…a new discovery from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, published in Nature, claims to have discovered a fifth kingdom of life—a new kind of eukaryote. The paper describes two organisms, one newly unearthed in Nova Scotia and one discovered in […]
“Engineers have created a see-through coating for windows that’s reported to reflect up to 70 percent of heat coming in from the sun.” |learn more
“As a test, the algorithm was given a set of 40 scans from 40 patients it had never studied before. It proved to be 100% accurate at detecting Alzheimer’s disease an average of more than six years prior to a […]
This is about magic mushrooms 🍄, and is a big deal! It also comes as I’m learning a lot about psychedelics in the book How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. “This classification suggests the treatment has demonstrated significant potential in […]
I LOVED THIS! It’s long and detailed and oh-so-interesting. “Senolytics. Blood transfusions. Placenta stem cells. These are just some of the innovative ways that startups are tackling aging and mortality. In this report, we dive into each one and track […]
A few years ago, researchers found a link between cold temperature and decreased cellular immune response. The underlying study is interesting, though maybe not directly related to how we think about cold. They showed that cells have less defensive ability […]
Holy cow! These researchers managed to send information from one brain directly to another without the usual step of drilling into skulls. Seems like a big deal to me. | learn more
“A big challenge facing Alzheimer’s and dementia researchers today is finding a way to identify patients suffering from the earliest stages of cognitive decline. New research is suggesting that AI could be the key to accurately predicting those patients most […]