When these designer cells hear music they release insulin for diabetics
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our mastery of synthetic biology is improving so much that this weird breakthrough is now possible. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. I’ve seen lots...
Electrogenetic breakthrough finds a way to control your genes via wearables
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could change your genes with your smart watch? Or just using electricity change your eye colour? That’s what we might be looking at in the future. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Single shot gene therapy treatment could end blood disorders like Sickle Cell
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As we crack the secret of life, DNA, it opens the door to all manner of previously unthinkable cures. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Researchers successfully reconstructed sound from just human brain activity
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What is the thoughts in your head weren’t so secret after all? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. For the very first time Artificial Intelligence...
Researchers have created living CART-T drugs to tackle humanity’s worst diseases
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In our battle against disease humanity, as we’ve seen recently, needs all the tools it can get its hands on and this is one of the most powerful. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
An AI just discovered three new anti-ageing senolytic compounds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is very good at trawling through data and modelling scenarios at speed, and that’s going to accelerate everything from drug discovery and beyond. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
A new European project is trying to make a digital twin of your brain
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If we can create a digital twin of the human brain we can learn more about how our brains work, develop better treatments, and improve human life. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
The world’s first space factory was just deployed – in space
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are certain products that when in made in space are much higher quality than on Earth where gravity affects them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Researchers find higher CO2 levels impair human cognition and intelligence
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF On the one hand we’re worried what happens to society when AI gets smarter than humans, but what happens if at the same time greenhouse gasses are making humans stupider? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
This new gel based sensor detects wound infections before they spread
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When wounds get infected problems begin and in extreme cases can result in amputation, so being able to detect them as they appear is crucial. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
The world’s first Pneumatic computer works using pressure not electricity
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are inventing all kinds of new computing platforms and this is just a latest in a vast range of interesting ones. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
IBM wants to build a 10,000 Qubit quantum computer within 10 years
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers are already proving themselves to be the world’s most powerful computers, and IBM wants to push them further. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
New brain decoding tech lets researchers see through the eyes of Mice for first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you thought that being able to see life through someone else’s eyes was impossible well not it isn’t … are humans next? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
AI is helping design new drugs from scratch using text prompts and Zero Shot design
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is increasingly designing from scratch using zero shot learning and in the future doctors could just use text prompts to design new drugs. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Nanorobotic swarms get busy shredding brain tumors from the inside
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Brain tumors are incredibly difficult to kill, but there are more breakthroughs coming to move the dial. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When it...
Electrifying Nanochips help reverse dramatic muscle loss in patients
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could turn one cell into another to repair muscle or tissue damage? That’s what this tech does. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
These new engineered super plants clean the air better than 30 regular plants
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People are looking at ways to use nature to help clean the environment, and air purifying plants is one way especially if they’re covering the outside of a skyscraper … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Longevity clinics are popping up in the US to lengthen people’s healthspans
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People often talk about longevity but healthspans – the amount of time you live a healthy “functional” life – is arguably just as important. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Andrew Ng launches LandingLens to democratise AI development for everyone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today AI models are hard to create, but what if there was a tool that could let anyone create one? That’s the purpose of Andrew Ng’s latest venture. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Smart bandages could one day monitor and medicate chronic injuries
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most bandages protect, but there are a lot of new bandages coming onto the market that also accelerate healing. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
