May 31, 2023
(Wired) – During the session, researchers asked what he was thinking and feeling, and he apparently had “a long conversation about those points, of which I have no recollection at all,” he said. It’s not that his trip wasn’t memorable. … Read More
May 26, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup Neuralink said it has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin the company’s first human clinical study. The company is working on a device that will allow people … Read More
May 26, 2023
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 388, no. 11, 2023) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Medicare Part D Coverage of Antiobesity Medications — Challenges and Uncertainty Ahead” by K. Baig, et al. “Pregnancy and Residency — … Read More
May 25, 2023
(Wired) – Eight years ago, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform a series of human tasks, including opening doors, operating power tools, and driving golf carts. … Read More
May 24, 2023
(Science) – The laboratory, which will be operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has taken nearly a decade longer to complete than planned and, at $1.25 billion, cost nearly three times as much as first predicted. It is also … Read More
May 24, 2023
(Nature) – There is a mental-health crisis in science — at all career stages and across the world. Graduate students are being harassed and discriminated against, paid meagre wages, bullied, overworked and sometimes sexually assaulted. It doesn’t get much better … Read More
May 24, 2023
(ProPublica) – As ProPublica has shown in a series of stories this year, global health authorities focus far more attention and money on containing outbreaks once they begin rather than preventing them from starting in the first place. This mindset … Read More
May 23, 2023
(New York Times) – This Colombian region is now thought to house the second largest extended family with Huntington’s. Its members are of intense scientific interest because they hold clues to genetic modifiers of, and potential treatments for, Huntington’s disease. … Read More
May 22, 2023
(Wired) – In a future when gene therapy can tweak a person’s genome precisely enough to cure them of severe disease, treating earlier will often be better—and the womb is as early as it gets. Last week, at the annual meeting … Read More
May 22, 2023
(The Atlantic) – As semaglutide has skyrocketed in popularity, patients have been sharing curious effects that go beyond just appetite suppression. They have reported losing interest in a whole range of addictive and compulsive behaviors: drinking, smoking, shopping, biting nails, … Read More
