Can Augmented Intelligence Help Save the Planet?
One of the major frustrations among those who want to address climate change is that grand pledges to reduce carbon footprints don’t often enough translate into concrete actions. That’s why, in...
View ArticleNew Report: Genomics Drives Economic Growth
The field of human genomics has risen from inauspicious beginnings to become an economic powerhouse, and continues to increase our understanding of human health and how to cure diseases. When it comes...
View ArticlemRNA Vaccines Protect Us from COVID-19. What Else Could They Do?
Most of us had never heard of mRNA vaccines before they burst onto the stage to rescue us from the COVID-19 pandemic. They represent a huge leap forward in how pharmaceutical scientists can design...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Marched Across U.S. Earlier Than We Knew, Scientists Say
The virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic had a toehold in more states across the U.S. earlier than we realized, according to a new study from scientists participating in the All of Us genomics...
View ArticleThe Variant Onslaught: What You Need to Know
As the highly-contagious Delta variant sprinted around the world — in many countries quickly establishing itself as the dominant strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus — it helped illustrate both the...
View ArticleVaccine Myths, Debunked
From the outset, the pandemic has been a double threat: one part deadly infectious disease, one part crippling misinformation campaign. Along with the availability of life-saving vaccines came a whole...
View ArticleIs Recruiting Teenage Influencers to Promote Vaccines a Good Idea?
The New York Times recently wrote about the White House’s tactic to promote Covid-19 vaccinations using an “army of influencers”. The article confirmed what I had been seeing on social media recently,...
View ArticleCan We Rescue Anti-Vax Victims?
In the end, I think it was the news about people getting vaccinated in disguise that broke me. A doctor in Missouri, where anti-vax sentiment runs high, said people who wanted to get the COVID-19...
View ArticleThe Third Dose: What You Need to Know
Even as confusion about third vaccine doses deepened, recent actions by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention increased the likelihood that such booster shots will be inevitable for...
View ArticleLessons from the Pandemic: Technology Disrupting (and Improving) Chinese...
We have learned many lessons from the pandemic – but three stand out as drivers for how to improve healthcare. First, it is painfully apparent that certain segments of the population lack access to...
View ArticleUber-Inspired Software Flags COVID-19 Variants Before They Explode
Data scientists took a tool originally developed for Uber and built a new prediction model to help make sense of emerging variants. Until recently, there was no scientific way to predict which...
View ArticleGenetic Tests Won’t Predict Your COVID-19 Risk
Years from now, our current age of genetic testing will be remembered as one of innovation and excitement — as well as a time when a host of misleading claims about genetic tools were targeted at...
View ArticleScientists ID Genetic Risk Factors For Suicide
Suicide is a global epidemic, taking nearly 800,000 lives each year. And in the U.S., where suicide rates rose by 33 percent between 1999 and 2019, getting support and resources to the right people at...
View ArticleAmyris at COP26: Sustainability on a Molecular Level
Amyris, a small but fast-growing synthetic biology company, first created the position of chief sustainability officer (CSO) just this year, but the company has environmental sustainability in its DNA...
View ArticleAs Medical Science Accelerates, Remote Clinical Trials Will Triumph
Clinical trials, a crucial phase of drug development, continue to evolve as new technologies allow researchers to manage them without participants coming to a physical location. Historically, they had...
View ArticleThe Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is an Indictment of US Health Care
This piece originally appeared in The Nation on December 22, 2021 and has since been updated to reflect developments in the case. It’s understandable why millions of people would like to see Elizabeth...
View ArticleWhy Is Covid Testing So Hard to Scale?
Two full years into the pandemic, it’s almost impossible to believe how badly the U.S. has botched its approach to testing. Rapid antigen tests, while never widely available, have become nearly...
View ArticleCan CRISPR Solve Covid Testing?
There’s no shortage of creative scientific ideas for how to develop better Covid tests. But a California-based team has made significant progress in adapting CRISPR technology for quickly and...
View ArticleThree Keys to Healthcare Startup Success
On a recent trip to Tucson, Arizona, I cracked open a copy of Chasing the Invisible, an autobiography by one of the city’s local heroes, Dr. Thomas Grogan. A decorated pathologist and...
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New Data Shows Massive Climate-Warming Leaks by New Mexico Oil and Gas Operators
This story originally appeared in Capital & Main and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. In New Mexico, new state rules...
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