Giuseppe Astarita

A scientist and a dad from Southern Italy 🍋🫒

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨BREAKING: It is being speculated that we’re less than 10 years from being able to communicate with every animal with decoding and BCIs that let us talk back. We truly are in the future.

[Dr. Jon Slotkin @slotkinjr]

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States

@Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on.

39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility.

We don’t have to.

In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.

In driving, we’re all the control group.

Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress.

It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives.

Link to article below.

👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view.

My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is the most detailed view of a human brain to date.

A team of researchers used electron microscopy (EM) to image a cubic millimeter-sized piece of human brain tissue at high resolution and this is a single neuron with 5,600 of the nerve fibers that connect to it.

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

'Night science' is what you do when you're not sure what's the question.

[@_rt* @literatura_rte]

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[Jesse Williams Lab @Lab__Williams]

Our latest paper, Identification of conserved and tissue-restricted transcriptional profiles for lipid associated macrophages, is online at Communications Biology. @UMN_IBP @IvanovLab @Xavier_Revelo

https://t.co/HeJbqj7ZMj

[Gary Siuzdak @kadzuis]

Lipidomics combined with CRISPR can help decipher the complex biochemistry that allow cancer cells to evade elimination.
https://t.co/T93OxcCSrf
@Nature fruitful collaboration with @JaviGBermudez #VitaminE

[Neuralink @neuralink]

🪡 We often get questions about the safety of our implant’s electrode threads.

In this video, Dave, a member of our technical staff, shares data highlighting the leap forward in safety that our technology provides.

[Lilly Medical US @LillyMedical]

New PUBLICATION alert! Learn more about plasma biomarkers as a promising tool for identifying Alzheimer's disease pathology, including factors to consider prior to routine clinical use. Published in Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease. Read here: https://t.co/icW7kfFMYQ

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

" I think maybe in the next 10, 15 years we can actually have a real crack at solving all disease."

Nobel Prize Winner and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on how AI can revolutionize drug discovery doing "science at digital speed."

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Nenúfares de Monet

[DoctorTro @DoctorTro]

🚨 NEW STUDY 🚨

Diet Coke is officially NOT healthy

•Aspartame raises insulin in mice and monkeys
•Aspartame causes plaques to form in mice by increasing insulin-induced inflammation
•The vagus nerve likely from the SWEET TASTE is the conduit for insulin release

Remember which health guru falsely told you Diet Coke was healthy because they focused on CALORIES and not science @BioLayne @DrNadolsky

https://t.co/EmdWLtDd6m

Here’s also a great summary from @nicknorwitz

[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

This is like AlphaFold, but for protein localisation rather than folding

It's a deep learning model that predicts a protein's subcellular compartment based on its amino acid sequence alone:

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

Breaking Science News: NASA just published discovery of strong evidence suggesting that other biological life likely exists in the universe! This is such a profound discovery that I’m really surprised it hasn’t become top news!

“Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise. On Earth, amino acids in living organisms predominantly have a ‘left-handed’ chemical structure. Bennu, however, contains nearly equal amounts of these structures and their ‘right-handed’, mirror-image forms, calling into question scientists’ hypothesis that asteroids similar to this one might have seeded life on Earth.”

[Giuseppe Astarita @lipidomic]

@cb_doge @elonmusk when will it be integrated on iPhone as chatgtp is now?

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

The most important graph in America.

Our largest industries have co-opted our government and are on the verge of bankrupting our country while not delivering on their core missions.

Are our kids healthier or better educated with this spending?

It is inexcusable.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Chemistree.

[Paul Saladino, MD @paulsaladinomd]

How the healthcare system keeps us sick…

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Lift weights

Grow neurons!