breakthroughs of 2024
Primary endosymbiosis found!
(Two discoveries in one; it's also the first eukaryote known to fix nitrogen)science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
(Two discoveries in one; it's also the first eukaryote known to fix nitrogen)science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
We have what is essentially a 100% effective HIV vaccine (actually a preventative antiviral which lasts 6 months)
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
BusyBeaver(5) = 47,176,870. Perhaps the last entry that will ever be found
scottaaronson.blog/?p=8088
scottaaronson.blog/?p=8088
NHS gene therapy trial first to give hearing to a deaf child
theguardian.com/science/articl…
theguardian.com/science/articl…
"some bacteria... synthesise new genes and associated proteins as a defence mechanism against bacteriophages"
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
First privately-owned machine to land on the moon.
nytimes.com/live/2024/02/2…
also
x.com/atroyn/status/…
nytimes.com/live/2024/02/2…
also
x.com/atroyn/status/…
New lifeform identified in the human gut. Function and symbiosis unknown.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_(…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_(…
A baby received a living heart-valve implant for the first time. This is a permanent solution where previously they received a series of "cadaver homografts" as they grew up.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…
"Every year, 300 million male chicks are... shredded alive in industrial grinders... in-ovo sexing can determine the sex of a chick before it hatches... unwanted eggs can be destroyed before... the embryo feels pain."
nytimes.com/2024/03/28/cli…
nytimes.com/2024/03/28/cli…
Actually useful AI: AlphaFold has been out for 3 years. What has it done to earn its Nobel? (Yes, drug dev is slow, but we should see something)
A couple of things:
x.com/CameronPasser/…
x.com/albrgr/status/…
x.com/EricDai_BioE/s…
x.com/AliHShaib/stat…
A couple of things:
x.com/CameronPasser/…
x.com/albrgr/status/…
x.com/EricDai_BioE/s…
x.com/AliHShaib/stat…
Sadly one must be cautious when reading Deepmind PR.
deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
Gears of war: We finally understand the bacterial motor. The rings of protein allow for several gears
nature.com/articles/s4156…
nature.com/articles/s4156…
Probably there is "dark" oxygen production 3 miles under the sea
nature.com/articles/s4156…
nature.com/articles/s4156…
Self-cleaning, self-cooling window-slash-roof material
nature.com/articles/s4146…
nature.com/articles/s4146…
"Today, agonizing searches for a matched [marrow] donor are largely a thing of the past... Cyclophosphamide was first developed in the 1950s for chemotherapy... repurposed to prevent a common and sometimes deadly complication of bone-marrow transplants called graft-versus-host disease"
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Monkeys have names
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
A Google quantum error-correcting code has gone beyond break-even (the logical qubit lasts > twice as long as its physical qubits). Can now get the overall error rate down to one per million, good enough for a real computer.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687
arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687
We made some mammoth stem cells
npr.org/sections/healt…
npr.org/sections/healt…
Actual useful personalised medicine: NHS does the first trials of vaccines against bowel cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer and melanoma.
england.nhs.uk/cancer/nhs-can…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA-4157…
jitc.bmj.com/content/11/Sup…
england.nhs.uk/cancer/nhs-can…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA-4157…
jitc.bmj.com/content/11/Sup…
Geothermal might get much much cheaper
(CW: this is PR)
(CW: this is PR)
https://x.com/TimMLatimer/status/1757065233976500408
OTC birth control: progestin minipills approved in the US
archive.is/BklDg
archive.is/BklDg
Gold's theorem says nothing about language generation
arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06757
arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06757
Actually useful AI: Deepmind team accurately computes particular quantum states with a deep learning proxy model
science.org/doi/abs/10.112…
science.org/doi/abs/10.112…
Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a living patient for the first time
statnews.com/2024/03/21/fir…
statnews.com/2024/03/21/fir…
Some gentle black hole formations (direct collapse, without a supernova)
science.ku.dk/english/press/…
nature.com/articles/s4158…
science.ku.dk/english/press/…
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Actually useful AI: maths professor credits Claude and o1 with a novel conjecture and proof in graph theory
https://x.com/robertghrist/status/1841462507543949581
At least one piece of "non-coding" RNA is actually key to development, as shown by this specific disorder
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Functional ultrasound neuroimaging to work out what a monkey motor cortex is doing, eventually for noninvasive brain-computer interfaces
nature.com/articles/s4159…
nature.com/articles/s4159…
Actually useful AI: a graph neural network tool made top materials scientists twice as productive, but also 44% less satisfied with their work.
aidantr.github.io/files/AI_innov…
aidantr.github.io/files/AI_innov…
Actually useful AI: 6 new antibiotics designed by monte carlo tree search. Targets a WHO priority pathogen
nature.com/articles/s4225…
nature.com/articles/s4225…
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