- Ruxandra Teslo: What will it take for AI to change drug discovery?. Producing boatloads of hypotheses won’t be enough, and would even set the field back. Good stuff. Again, China is eating America’s lunch here so something better change, and soon, but it is unlikely LLMs will be of immediate help.
- Chris Arnade: Asian style materialism. And if you think, well, maybe it is time for one civilization to sunset so that another one will rise, observations like Arnade’s should make you pause. The culture there seems rather bleak. And I consider him a rather impartial observer.
- Sarah Kliff for the NYT: The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate. It is about fetal HR monitoring, a particularly salient topic right now. It seems to be the Swan-Ganz catheter of obstetrics, thankfully much less invasive.
- Anish Koka on X: In the wake of the hubbub on novel promising gene therapy approval for Huntington’s disease, this video on the Sarepta debacle is a must watch. Can’t be… I am sure that everything was on the up-and-up.