Ex Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who resigned in a scandal broken by @tab_delete, is very much back in the limelight as a biotech founder who is pumped up about AI
A great @AmyDMarcus profile of the people using AI to try to save their spouses, pets and themselves in the face of grim medical prognoses.
https://t.co/ORmk7LikYJ
After buying back 23andMe for more than $300M, Anne Wojcicki is pitching donors on a $100M campaign to turn the company into a nonprofit research hub. https://t.co/wse11vaFYO
This rare in-depth profile of Anne Wojcicki and this next chapter for 23andMe by @AmyDMarcus sheds light on so many themes.
- The sheer grit of entrepreneurship, but the vulnerability too
- The obstacles and opportunities of digital health
- The network of Silicon Valley and its various tribes.
Let us know what you think!
https://t.co/P2LS1AroDN
The Big Read: Silicon Valley is pouring billions into longevity. One startup is already testing mitochondrial transplants on paying patients—including a 91-year-old. https://t.co/2LkN7Nr8Dd
A new longevity experiment is mitochondrial transplants.
"The way it works right now is they are having a family member donate blood, a young family member, because the idea is as you age, your mitochondria don't work as well." — @AmyDMarcus, Health and Science Reporte
The Big Read: Longevity treatments for a 91-year-old? An underdog in Silicon Valley’s immortality race bets on customers who can’t wait for anti-aging therapies.
Read more from @AmyDMarcus 👇
https://t.co/2LkN7Nr8Dd
It's finally time to talk about the wild place where my two main interests intersect: space and using science to make babies. Thrilled to see the "Space Babies" discourse has arrived -- great piece from @AmyDMarcus
https://t.co/VQ2jQkjw3o
As a cub beat reporter at @wsj, I admired @AmyDMarcus as the ultimate beat reporter. Scoops. Page One stories. A Pulitzer Prize! I can't wait for her to bring her expertise in health and science reporting to @theinformation at a time when tech *wants* to disrupt it all.
https://t.co/2Y5Nkp4HB4
Everyone should read the WSJ cover story today entitled “Genetically Engineered Babies Are banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway,” by @emilyglazer, Katherine Long, and @amydmarcus. My thoughts and some essential additional links in the thread below. 1/
https://t.co/lHxprAWBQC
Genetically engineered babies are banned. Tech billionaires are trying to make one anyway: https://t.co/JCcR5Hmf8E
Latest investigation by me, @ByKLong and @AmyDMarcus
A network of ultrawealthy investors including Peter Thiel and Sam Altman are infusing the longevity industry with cash and making big bets on where the science is headed https://t.co/uskcPVd9JF via @WSJ
Characteristically thoughtful @WSJ piece by @AmyDMarcus documenting her experience in age-simulation suit developed by researchers @MIT, intended to enable others to experience life as older person w common infirmities. Will motivate empathy+preemption...
https://t.co/qmnY0pHACD