September 2, 2024
(The New Yorker) – The A.I. revolution is coming to a pharmacy near you. Bacteria produce numerous molecules that could become medicines, but most of them aren’t easily identified or synthesized with the technology that exists today. A small percentage … Read More
August 30, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Four years ago, a team of researchers led by a heavyweight in the field of microbiology made a stunning claim: Cancers have unique microbial signatures that could one day allow tumors to be diagnosed with a … Read More
August 28, 2024
(Nature)- Data from giant project show how withdrawn research propagates through the literature. In January, a review paper about ways to detect human illnesses by examining the eye appeared in a conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and … Read More
August 28, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Researchers who worried about AI risk had been treated as pariahs in elite circles. Suddenly, they were able to get their case across to the masses, Toner said. They were invited onto serious news shows and popular … Read More
August 28, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 27, 2024
(Vox) – Unfortunately, fraud and misconduct in the scientific community isn’t nearly as rare as one might like to believe. We also know that the consequences of being caught are frequently underwhelming. It can take years to get a bad … Read More
August 26, 2024
(ABC News) – Not many people know the world’s first detonation of an atomic bomb was on U.S. soil Ash from the Trinity Test rained down for days. Children played in it, thinking it was snow. It covered fresh laundry … Read More
August 22, 2024
(New York Times) – A survey revealed similarities between these two altered states of consciousness. One person felt a sensation of “slowly floating into the air” as images flashed around. Another recalled “the most profound sense of love and peace,” … Read More
August 22, 2024
(Wired) – Letting programs learn through “open-ended” experimentation may unlock remarkable new capabilities, as well as new risks. At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a prominent artificial intelligence lab at the University of British Columbia … Read More
August 22, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – In March, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink introduced its first human trial participant, a quadriplegic who showed the world how he could control a computer cursor with just his thoughts. On Wednesday, the company said … Read More
August 22, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – Futurists who write about the destiny of humankind have imagined all sorts of changes. We’ll all be given auxiliary chromosomes loaded with genetic goodies, or maybe we’ll march through life as a member of a pod … Read More
August 21, 2024
(Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to ramp up scrutiny of U.S. clinical trials conducted in China, citing the risk of intellectual property theft and the possibility of forced participation of Uyghurs. … Read More
August 20, 2024
(Axios) – An implant that responds to brain signals in real time was shown to ease symptoms of Parkinson’s disease instantaneously in a limited trial of whether “closed loop” technology can help patients as they go about their daily lives. … Read More
August 19, 2024
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 32, no. 8, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 16, 2024
(MIT Technology Review) – The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher advocating an extremely radical plan … Read More
August 16, 2024
(The Conversation) – I’m a medical anthropologist and bioethicist who studies the values and experiences driving prenatal gene therapy developments, including genome editing. Human prenatal genome editing has not happened yet – as far as we know. Prenatal genome editing … Read More
August 16, 2024
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 21, no. 2, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 15, 2024
(Wired) – After the FDA rejected its proposed MDMA treatment, Lykos Therapeutics is laying off 75 percent of its staff and its founder has left the company. The FDA decision underscores the difficulty of getting regulatory approval for a psychedelic-based … Read More
August 15, 2024
(The New Yorker) – Most new diseases have their origins in animals. So why aren’t we paying more attention to their health? Diseases cross over very rarely, with less than a tenth of one per cent of animal viruses ever … Read More
August 15, 2024
(Axios) – Osteopathic physicians have similar jobs and training to M.D.s. But they say they’re lagging far behind when it comes to representation on federal panels that make key recommendations on medical research funding and policy. Why it matters: The … Read More
August 15, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Black men and women are at least two times as likely as white Americans to die from strokes. Hospitals around the country have long sought to bring those numbers down. Now, the Cleveland Clinic, a prestigious … Read More
August 15, 2024
(Wired) – In a world first, Harvard biologists worked with Google to diagram a cubic millimeter of human cerebral cortex at the subcellular level, paving the way for the next generation of brain science. This image could be hung in … Read More
August 14, 2024
(STAT News) – STAT spoke with Mariska Vansteensel, a neuroscientist at University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands and president of the international BCI Society, about the field and about a new study that she and her colleagues just published … Read More
August 13, 2024
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 1, no. 8, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 12, 2024
(New York Times) – The psychedelic treatment, for PTSD, was rejected last week by government regulators. The journal Psychopharmacology has retracted three papers about MDMA-assisted therapy based on what the publication said was unethical conduct at one of the study … Read More
