April 9, 2025
(Venture Beast) – Deep Cogito, a new AI research startup based in San Francisco, officially emerged from stealth today with Cogitov1, a new line of open source large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned from Meta’s Llama 3.2 and equipped with hybrid … Read More
April 9, 2025
European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. 33, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 8, 2025
(New York Times) – While it was known that some staff members devoted to H.I.V. prevention in other countries had been lost, The New York Times has learned that all such experts have now been terminated or are awaiting reassignment … Read More
April 8, 2025
(Nature) – The 50th anniversary of a landmark biosafety conference is an opportunity to ensure its spirit lives on in today’s scientists. In 2008, Nature published a six-part essay series called Meetings that Changed the World. One of our choices … Read More
April 8, 2025
(New York Times) – Dozens of people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rains flooded the capital, Kinshasa, in the last few days, and destroyed hundreds of homes. The Ndjili River running through the megacity of … Read More
April 8, 2025
(New York Times) – If the current legal landscape when it comes to embryos seems messy, it’s a result, in no small part, of the unsettled nature of what preceded it. For over a century, courts generally did not grant … Read More
April 8, 2025
(Vox) – According to a study that followed more than 280,000 people in Wales, older adults who received a vaccine against shingles were 20 percent less likely to develop dementia in the seven years that followed vaccination than those who … Read More
April 8, 2025
(Digital Trends) – Barely a few months ago, Wall Street’s big bet on generative AI had a moment of reckoning when DeepSeek arrived on the scene. Despite its heavily censored nature, the open source DeepSeek proved that a frontier reasoning … Read More
April 8, 2025
(Axios) – The upheaval at the Food and Drug Administration is threatening to cripple the user fee system that funds reviews of new drugs, devices and diagnostic tests, with the most immediate threat to look-alike biological drugs, according to four … Read More
April 8, 2025
(The Guardian) – Meta is expanding its safety measures for teenagers on Instagram with a block on livestreaming, as the social media company extends its under-18 safeguards to the Facebook and Messenger platforms. Under-16s will be barred from using Instagram’s … Read More
April 8, 2025
(Wired) – Startup Gameto has developed a technique for maturing eggs outside the body that’s showing promise at helping patients get pregnant with fewer hormone treatments. More and more people are turning to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to have … Read More
April 7, 2025
(CNET) – Scientists used a brain implant and generative AI to give a woman her voice back and help her talk in near real time. It’s one example of how generative AI tools — using the same underlying technology that … Read More
April 7, 2025
(AP) – Three people have died from measles-related illnesses in the U.S. since the highly contagious virus started ripping through West Texas in late January. The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all … Read More
April 7, 2025
(BBC) – A “miracle” baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb. The baby’s mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister’s … Read More
April 7, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The current U.S. measles outbreak follows, in some ways, a classic pattern: The virus first found a foothold where childhood vaccination is low—among Mennonites in Texas, in this case—before rapidly spreading to other communities and states. It … Read More
April 7, 2025
(Wired) – Multiple US states have logged record pollen counts this spring, with climate change likely to blame. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) projects that 2025 will be yet another brutal year for seasonal allergies across the … Read More
April 7, 2025
(The Independent) – A quote from James after the publication of his caffeine study neatly underlines how Oster’s attitude diverges from the attitude of the medical establishment: “Certainly, there is no evidence to suggest that caffeine benefits either mother or … Read More
April 7, 2025
(BBC) – April was born with spina bifida and was later diagnosed with tumours at the base of her spine which she says have left her in constant, debilitating pain. She’s been taking strong opioid painkillers for more than 20 … Read More
April 7, 2025
(Ars Technica) – As AI hype permeates the Internet, tech and business leaders are already looking toward the next step. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to a machine with human-like intelligence and capabilities. If today’s AI systems are on … Read More
April 7, 2025
(New York Times) – This svelte humanoid greeted me with what seemed to be a Scandinavian accent, and I offered to shake hands. As our palms met, it said: “I have a firm grip.” When the home’s owner, a Norwegian … Read More
April 7, 2025
Christian Bioethics (vol. 31, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 4, 2025
(NPR) – Underscoring the massive scale of America’s medical debt problem, a nonprofit has struck a deal to pay off old medical bills for an estimated 20 million people. New York-based Undue Medical Debt, which buys patient debt, is paying … Read More
April 4, 2025
(New York Times) – A growing body of evidence now shows that cannabis is destructive to male fertility. Experts have long known that tobacco and alcohol use can impact male fertility. And since at least the 1970s, researchers have suspected … Read More
April 4, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Google’s director and head of product for Gemini, Tulsee Doshi, told TechCrunch in an interview that the increasing cadence of the company’s model launches is part of a concerted effort to keep up with the rapidly evolving AI … Read More
April 4, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Agents could make it easier and cheaper for criminals to hack systems at scale. We need to be ready. Agents are the talk of the AI industry—they’re capable of planning, reasoning, and executing complex tasks like … Read More
