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The Shortest Path to the Brain Runs Through the Nose | Lawrence Fine, CEO and Co-Founder of AGCP Farmacêuticos, Lisbon
Nasal drug delivery could offer a promising route for delivering medicines to the brain while bypassing the blood-brain barrier, with…
The Next Great Life Sciences Investments May Be Building the Machinery Behind Biology
Life sciences investment is moving beyond the simple hunt for breakthrough science toward a broader opportunity: building the platforms, infrastructure…
The Next Great Life Advisor May Not Help You Set Goals. They May Help You See Your Life as a Whole.
For years, life advice has been divided into neat categories: career, money, health, relationships, education and personal development. But real…
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The Second Job Nobody Was Hired to Do
Across almost every knowledge-work job, a new kind of labor has quietly appeared: watching, checking and correcting an AI system…
Bioinformatics Is Becoming the Operating System for Biology
Bioinformatics was once the discipline that helped scientists make sense of biological data. It is becoming something much more ambitious.…
The Fitness Tracker Is Becoming Something Much Bigger
Fitness technology is moving beyond counting steps and workouts toward continuously understanding how an individual responds to exercise, creating a…
The Brain Is Becoming a New Interface. Who Will Build the World Around It?
For decades, computers have been designed around the limits of the human body: keyboards, screens, microphones, cameras and touchscreens. Neurotechnology…
Your Genome Was Never Meant to Be Compared With One Perfect Human
A human genome sequence dissolving into a vast, interconnected landscape of many different human genomes, suggesting that there is no…
A Piece of Another Solar System Just Passed Through Ours. What Can It Tell Us About Home?
An object formed around another star has given scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study a fragment of another planetary system…