Can we switch off diseases?

siRNA drugs are, in my view and @jacobtref.bsky.social’s too, one of the most exciting developments in medicine. So we decided to do an episode!

The OpenAI Foundation — the charity arm of the AI behemoth — has so far committed to giving away at least $25 billion. The foundation's life sciences lead speaks to Nature about its ambitions to cure disease.

go.nature.com/4d9IHYP

I started a blog in 2024, with a post arguing society is not focused on some of the most important technical problems.

Today, I posted an update on the ten technologies I wrote about. Nine of the ten are still unavailable. But I feel differently about that now:

blog.jacobtrefethen.com/halfway/