The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA
AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how ...
Tag: Infectious Disease
We don’t know how the Ebola outbreak started. That’s a problem.
In just 10 days over the summer of 1854, 500 people died of cholera in the Soho neighborhood of London. ...
Why the US doesn’t want American Ebola patients to return home
As global concern about an Ebola outbreak in central Africa grows, hundreds of Kenyans have taken to the streets to ...
The old tech that could help stop the next airborne pandemic
It’s hard to imagine modern life without glycols. They are used in cosmetics, fog machines, and food. As you read ...
The end of malaria
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The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem.
There’s a reason dengue infections are also called “breakbone fever.”Along with a mild fever, symptoms of the mosquito-borne illness include ...
The only thing standing between humanity and the end of HIV
How often, on average, do you forget to take your daily meds?For me, it’s about twice a week. And that’s ...
Eggs are pricey again. What’s the government doing about it?
Bird flu is surging in the US again and has, once again, sent egg prices skyrocketing. Nearly 13 million birds ...
Giving healthy kids antibiotics saves lives. There’s a catch.
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