Welcome to Lux Recommends #295, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
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A new gene-delivery vehicle could make gene therapy for muscle diseases safer and more effective: “Researchers have engineered a gene-shuttling virus used in gene therapy to better target muscle tissue at lower doses.” — Adam G
Brain-Inspired AI Will Enable Future Medical Implants: “Biocompatible AI could one day monitor body’s electrical signals in real time” — Deena
How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron? ”Scientists taught an artificial neural…
Welcome to Lux Recommends #294, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
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Introduction to AAV as a Gene Therapy Vector, Part 1: “What are AAVs? and what makes them good candidates for gene therapy?” — Adam G
Scientists Create Artificial Cells That Mimic Living Cells’ Ability to Capture, Process, and Expel Material: “Synthetic Microscopic Structures Imitate Vital Function of Biological Cells” — Sam
Turn and Face the Strange: “Overcoming Barriers to Change in Sports and Investing” (pdf)— Peter
Welcome to Lux Recommends #293, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
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Why Is the Supply Chain Still So Snarled? We Explain, With a Hot Tub: “Utah manufacturer Bullfrog Spas depends on a complicated network to bring materials from across continents and oceans. The pandemic put it out of whack.” — Deena
The miracle molecule that could treat brain injuries and boost your fading memory: “Discovered more than a decade ago, a remarkable compound shows promise in treating everything from Alzheimer’s…
Welcome to Lux Recommends #292, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
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Are You Ready for Sentient Disney Robots? “Some of the animatronics at Disney’s parks have been doing their herky-jerky thing since the Nixon administration. The company knows that nostalgia won’t cut it with today’s children.” — Adam K
Social physics: Are we at a tipping point in world history? “Does history have a grand narrative, or is it just a random walk to no place in particular? And is…
Welcome to Lux Recommends #291, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
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Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control: “Prosthetic enables a wide range of daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, shaking hands, and petting a cat.” — Adam G
Near-Death Experiences Can Scar Animals for Life: “Humans may not be the only creatures who get PTSD.” — Zack
Little kids burn so much energy, they’re like a different species, study finds — Sam
Welcome to Lux Recommends #290, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
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Following a Circadian Diet Could Help Keep Foodborne Illnesses at Bay: “Mice intestinal immune systems sync with gut microbe activity to provide scheduled protection against contaminated food, a new study suggests” — Adam G
Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing: “They force you to look at the world the way an AI does” — Sam
Lost Italian Village Emerges After Decades Under Water: “Lake Resia, which engulfed the…
Welcome to Lux Recommends #289, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
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Loving an Elevator: “The Space Elevator has been a dream of scientists for centuries. A new design may finally make it a reality — at least, by the next century.” — Sam
Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real: “Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new phase of matter inside…
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DeepMind creates ‘transformative’ map of human proteins drawn by artificial intelligence: “DeepMind plans to release hundreds of millions of protein structures for free” — Shaq
Wild Superyacht Secrets I Learned When I Became a Deckhand: “From cannabis buffets to choppering in caviar, posh charter life can be a rough ride for the crew.” — Lux friend Tommy Kane
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‘They have shown that this is not some impossible thing’: Academic lab copies Google’s big biological breakthrough — Adam G
How Designer DNA Is Changing Medicine: “A genomic revolution is poised to cure sickle cell and other genetic diseases” — Deena
Lifting Weights? Your Fat Cells Would Like to Have a Word: “A cellular chat after your workout may explain in part why weight training burns fat.” …
Welcome to Lux Recommends #286, this week’s edition of what we at Lux are reading and thinking about (want to receive this by email? Sign up here).
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How Romanesco cauliflower forms its spiraling fractals: “By tweaking just three genes in a common lab plant, scientists have replicated the pattern” — Sam
Can microbes combat neurodegeneration? — Adam G
Why I’m a proud solutionist: “History teaches us how to be brutally honest about a problem and yet optimistic for a technological solution.” — Sam
