Dark Bio's whitepaper outlines a decentralized biotechnology platform that uses blockchain and cryptographic tokens to incentivize and coordinate research into rare diseases and longevity. The platform aims to democratize biotech funding by allowing anyone to contribute to and profit from scientific discoveries, creating a new model for open-source drug development and biological data sharing.
A new paper by Thomas Bloom, Will Sawin, Carl Schildkraut and Dmitrii Zhelezov disproves a well-known conjecture in additive combinatorics. The result shows there exist arbitrarily large finite sets A of real numbers where max(|A+A|,|AA|) ≤ |A|^{2-c}. The solution was achieved by humans using methods related to an earlier AI solution to the unit distance conjecture.
John Burn-Murdoch guest-hosted BBC's Radical podcast, speaking with geneticist Sir John Bell about recent and upcoming medical breakthroughs.