anthony fauci
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Remember That Letter Calling for a Pause on AI? It Didn’t Work
Top tech and business leaders begged generative AI companies to pause new developments for six months. AI companies clearly didn’t listen.
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Some Good News: Scientists Are Now Testing Out a Universal Flu Vaccine In People
The race to one of medicine’s elusive goals — a universal flu vaccine — is heating up. On Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health announced the phase I clinical trial of one such potential candidate, which will involve up to 100 adult volunteers. In early experiments, the vaccine appeared to protect animals exposed to fatal…
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108 Volunteers Will Test New mRNA Vaccines for HIV
The next generation of potential vaccines for HIV are set to be tested in humans. This week, the U.S. National Institutes of Health launched an early clinical trial that will track the safety of three experimental HIV vaccines, all being developed by Moderna and based on its mRNA technology, the same platform used for its…
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2021: What the Actual Shit Was That?
Einstein famously established the relativity of time. But even his elegant theory and the refinements that have followed perhaps fail to capture time’s true elasticity. There is no truer test of what we are tentatively calling the Unified Theory of Relativity than 2021, a year where moments stretched and collapsed upon each other and made…