#breakthrough

Here’s something I never would’ve even considered a possibility. If we have vaccines for drug addiction in the future, the impact on society could be massive.

The aim is to create synthetic organs for transplantation — biotech is apparently the new frontier and this sounds like a pretty big development.

A creepy example of how easy it is to identify people using security camera footage.

What other conditions will be treated with video games in the future? Is CBT something you could build into a game?

NASA has deployed what is essentially an artificial tree: it breathes in carbon dioxide and exhales oxygen. To colonise Mars, we’ll need to create a lot of resources on the planet because it’s expensive and slow to constantly transport them between Earth and Mars.

Scientists have engineered yeast to produce the cancer therapeutic vinblastine — a very long biosynthetic pathway (i.e., much more complex than other substances we’ve bioengineered with yeast). Yeast manufacturing could be an incredibly impactful technology over the next century.

I don’t think animals are ever going to want to talk to us, but it will be very interesting if ML upends the notion that animals don’t do a lot of talking to each other.

Wiliot has developed a new kind of processor that is ultra thin and light and runs on ambient power.