Category: Science
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106,036 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant. 17 of them die each day. But what if we could give them pig organs? From the Seventeenth Century to Modern Science The first attempted xenotransplantation, or animal-to-human transplant, was done in 1667. Jean-Baptiste Denys gave sheep’s blood to a 15 year…
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Three quarters of Americans are overweight or obese. Only 5% will ever lose weight with diet and exercise. Are drugs the only real solution to the obesity epidemic? David Friedberg recently dug into that and more in an interview with Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks. GLP-1’s for Weight Loss Lilly…
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“Can we rejuvenate an organism?” No one knows for sure, but Juan Carlos Belmonte is getting close. In a fascinating talk at the All-In Summit, Belmonte explains how he’s using cellular reprogramming to reverse aging in mice and, perhaps one day, us. Why We Age After age 40, the likelihood…
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Halloween of 2000 was the last time all humans were on earth. Since then, astronauts have occupied the International Space Station (ISS) at all times. In a fascinating talk at the All-In Summit, astronaut Woody Hoburg tells us about life and space and how we’ll get to Mars. Life in…
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By 2054, South Korea could lose two thirds of its population. The scenario is not a war or pandemic. It is a collapse in fertility. South Korea’s fertility rate stands at 0.72, the lowest in the world. At current rates, South Korea could cease to exist within 500 years. And…
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“One of the first times y’all gave me complete control over this, I actually stayed up until, geez I don’t know, like 6 A.M. playing Civilization 6.” That’s Noland Arbaugh, the first human to get a brain implant from Neuralink. The implant allows him to control his computer with his…
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I’m 38 years old. Of all my friends, only one has a child, a little boy. So if I had to lay a bet, I’d say our generation is going to use a lot of IVF. A fascinating startup called Alife might make that process a lot easier. How AI…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Fathers, Fertility, Health, IVF, Machine Learning, Mothers, Silicon Valley, Startups, Venture Capital+
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Every finger has a unique fingerprint, right? Wrong, according to a new study published in Science Advances. The Columbia University team used an AI model to analyze tens of thousands of fingerprints. It found that fingerprints can actually be shared across multiple fingers. From a Columbia statement: It’s a well-accepted…
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AI is incredible, but expensive — the chips cost $30,000 and require tons of energy. But AI may be about to get 100X cheaper. Cheaper, Faster, Better A research team at Northwestern University was able to perform complex AI tasks with 100 times less energy than current AI models. From…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Chips, GPU, GPUs, LLM, ML, NVDA, NVIDIA, Semiconductors, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Researchers have reversed some signs of aging in mice. But it had never been done in primates — until now. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! In what appears to be a major scientific breakthrough, Life Biosciences presented results showing the reversal of damage to the eye in non-human primates.…
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