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An incredible update, perhaps the start of a flood of new genetic therapies
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Interesting new tool to help innovation policymakers with a gorgeous UX
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My first podcast on the wonderful new Memo to File from Luke Fehily and Tom O’Connor
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Remarks by the President on the completion of the Human Genome Project — The White House (clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov)Interesting relic to reflect on in 2026
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Fascinating progress on the use of in vivo gene editing therapy to protect against heart disease
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Nice natural experiment to assess the causal effect of financial assistance on homelessness.
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Great index for assessing the frontier drug discovery efforts along the neglectedness and impact axes, tho it is missing a metric to gauge tractability
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Emigrating from Belfast to Los Angeles with a pit stop in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, creating the LA aqueduct, getting Mulholland Drive called after you, earning an honorary doctorate from Berkeley, and rejecting the idea of being LA mayor because you’d “rather give birth to a porcupine backwards”. What a guy!
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Imagining a theme park called Fota(voltaic) Island to help galvanize the Irish towards being wholehearted stewards of technological progress, rooted in their own history of successful national STEM programs. I'm sure @oisin will have thoughts.
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My first paper as part of the Edison team!
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Seth and Andrey acting as disciplined probabilists (and making me wonder to what extent can we call them Bayesians)
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Ruxandra describes a case study in a new treatment for childhood leukemia showing how clinical trials should be thought of as part of the discovery process and not just a final seal
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Best year for Bandcamp Fridays so far
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