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Journalist covering biotechnology for MIT Technology Review. Scoops about new methods in genetics and cell biology. The "playing God" beat. Gene editing, gene therapy, ancient DNA, synthetic embryos, cloning, etc.
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We looked into the booming field of ancient DNA research, how it's telling stories from pre-history and how some of the old information is being teleported into the present and added to plants in a bid to defeat climate change. www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/17/1...

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Renee Wegrzyn Founding director of ARPA-H (the DARPA of medical research) is out of a job, and apparently very suddenly.

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This 👇is a 🎯 all-in-one H5N1 tracking tool to bookmark & share: H5N1 US Tracker - Ginkgo Biosecurity www.ginkgobiosecurity.com/h5n1-us-trac... H/t @rhonda234567.bsky.social

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CIA now favours covid lab leak theory. BUT critical to note: 'The agency made its new assessment with “low confidence,” which means the intelligence behind it is fragmentary and incomplete.' nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...

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Google DeepMind won a Nobel Prize for protein prediction. Now OpenAI says it's getting into the game as well, with model trained on protein sequences that' being used in longevity research. www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1...

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What to expect from Elon Musk's Neuralink in 2025. www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/16/1...

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Doc, does this mean I shouldn't swallow the toothpaste?

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Technical drawing of an infant gestating inside an artificial womb. Emanuel M. Greenberg, ARTIFICIAL UTERUS, U.S. Patent No. 2,723,660 (November 15, 1955)

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Ancient DNA. Often said that the number of old human skeletons whose DNA is being sequence is increasing "exponentially." Here is the data, from the Allen Resource for ancient DNA. I mean, the trend is more...punctuated linearity? Someone help me feel ok calling this exponential.

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MIT Technology Review annual list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies of the year. They are: Vera C. Rubin Observatory Generative AI search Small language models Cattle burping remedies Robotaxis Cleaner jet fuel Fast-learning robots HIV prevention med Green steel Stem-cell therapies that work

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An accumulation of somatic mutations cause cancer. But do they also cause a misunderstood class of other conditions that aren't inborn, but arise in adulthood? An M.D. writing in Atlantic draws together some rare examples. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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New documentary follows career of MIT prof Phil Sharp and rise of biotech industry. Sharp shared 1993 Nobel for how RNA codes proteins and he co-founded founded Biogen, Alnylam, among others. Director is Bill Haney, a biotech exec. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruJd...

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In the 20 years since the term “microplastics” was first coined, a growing body of research has consistently shown how pervasive and problematic the pollutants have become. A recent #ScienceReview provides an overview and the progress made in understanding #microplastics.

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5.5% of prescriptions doctors write in the U.S. are for GLP-1 agonists like Wegovy/Ozempic. Up from 1% in 2021 -used for diabetes and weight loss -women 2X as likely -50% of scripts for weight loss unfilled (presumably, due to high price) www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/20/1...

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Our annual list of the worst technology failures, flimflams and foul ups is live The winners are: -Google Woke AI -Boeing Starliner -Crowdstrike Outage -Vertical Farms -Exploding Pagers -23andMe -AI Slop -Voluntary Carbon Markets www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/17/1...

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remember Biden's cancer moonshot? what ever happened to that

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Quite a story here about an IVF clinic mixup. Do you trade the baby you carried and cuddled for your biological child? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/m...

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