Tag: biology

• Our Pandemic Summer

  April 14, 2020

  The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself. Updated at 6:45 p.m. ET on April 14, 2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal/609940/ more ›

• How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America

  March 3, 2020

  The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States Haskell… more ›

• Epidemic Accelerates China’s Commercial Livestreaming Boom

  February 28, 2020

  For the past two decades, Sun Laichun’s business acumen has served him well. Unfortunately, circumstances beyond his control have dealt the most crushing blows to his commercial ventures. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005231/epidemic-accelerates-chinas-commercial-livestreaming-boom more ›

• 💭🦠 Six ways coronavirus will change our world

  February 9, 2020

  The pandemic virus, 2019-nCoV, is testing many of the assumptions of a highly interconnected, modern, globalised world. This 120nm virus, small to us, large by viral standards, is shining a… more ›

• Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?

  January 12, 2020

  By Andreessen Horowitz This is a turn of the decade (and January-themed) look backward/ look forward into personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospective pieces in the media… more ›

• AI is Industrializing Discovery

  November 26, 2019

  One of the defining characteristics in an industrial revolution is the fundamental shift from a bespoke, artisan process to an  industrialized, engineerable, repeatable one. https://a16z.com/2019/11/19/ai-industrializing-discovery-biology-healthcare/ more ›

• Emergences

  September 5, 2019

  My perspective is closest to . I liked his introducing himself as being interested in intelligence in the wild. I will copy George in that. That is what I’m interested in,… more ›

• AI That Evolves in the Wild

  August 18, 2019

  I’m interested not in domesticated AI—the stuff that people are trying to sell. I’m interested in wild AI—AI that evolves in the wild. I’m a naturalist, so that’s the interesting thing to me.… more ›

• Don’t change your DNA at home, says America’s first CRISPR law

  August 10, 2019

  It’s going to be illegal in California to sell consumers “gene therapy kits” unless they carry a warning that says not to use them on yourself. Just one wrinkle: we’re… more ›

• Should the Rich Be Allowed to Buy the Best Genes? – Air Mail

  August 4, 2019

  Biology is the new tech. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-7-27/should-the-rich-be-allowed-to-buy-the-best-genes more ›