As @duncande reports for @techreview, scientists are developing blood tests that reveal immune health in unprecedented detail.
@ImmunomePro aims to test 250,000 people globally to identify illnesses before symptoms appear.
aventine.org/technology/huma…
My 93-year-old father passed away last November. He died shortly after he looked up at me and said: "I'm so happy.” Check out my essay about my quest to find out what he meant, especially at this unsettled moment in history when happiness seems so elusive. medium.com/@davidewingduncan…
Hope you enjoy my article! Also check out my companion story and Q&A on Substack about @PhilWolfsonMD , a pioneer of ketamine psychotherapy on the past, present and future of psychedelics. davideduncan.substack.com/p/…
For VF, science writer David Ewing Duncan—who has used Ketamine to combat depression and long-haul COVID—reflects on the reputation and dangers of the drug.
🔗: vanityfair.visitlink.me/bmJe…
My latest Futures column is about a man living in the future. He’s working to reverse aging, transplant pig organs into people, deextinct wooly mammoths, bioengineer DNA and cells to fight disease, more. George Church is turning SciFi into reality. open.substack.com/pub/davide…
My latest “Futures” column is up. It’s about legendary soprano Renee Fleming’s new book on music and the brain and her views about the future - and why our brains need and crave music at a moment when we’re all feeling anxious about the future.
davideduncan.substack.com/p/…
My latest "Futures" column is out. "Robot-Human Hybrids Are Here"—about next gen exoskeleton tech and an "exonaut" whose spine was severed in a crash who can walk again—also about the possibility of wearable robo-enhancements for everyone in the future. tinyurl.com/ya7aec9s
#GreenHealth is one of the key topics for the industry nowadays, all around the 🌎. In these sessions, we’ll offer a global point of view with experts from all over the globe.
Join us at The ECHAlliance Global Health Connector event at @sciencesummit now: us02web.zoom.us/j/8501663554…
Humans are feeding the invisible world of ocean microbes a punishing diet of pollutants, boosting the impact of climate change & hastening the destruction of life as we know it, says @Duncande, coauthor of The Voyage of Sorcerer II. @sciam@JCVenterInstscientificamerican.com/artic…
My new book is out - the story of a vast, invisible world of tiny creatures that connect all life on Earth - and how climate change is altering it in ways that could have a devastating impact on life as we know it. Co-authored by Craig Venter. bit.ly/44QxJAw
My article in Sci Am on an aspect of climate change few know about - the devastating impact on Earth’s microbiome. My new book is out next week (co-authored with Craig Venter) on this and on Craig’s work revolutionizing what we know about Planet Microbe. bit.ly/3Lih2Xs
We rightly fret about climate change’s impact on polar bears, plovers, and coral reefs that we can see. What about the invisible world of microbes connecting life on Earth that number more than all stars in the universe? More in my Vanity Fair story. bit.ly/3L6D6o7