Scientists are using AI to dream up amazing new unnatural enzymes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Enzymes are crucial to all living things and to many human processes and activities, so revolutionising how we create them will change the world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Inspired by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 biotech labs are now using generative AI to create new drugs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting better at creating and innovating all manner of things – and now it’s proteins and drug treatments. 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 breakthrough lets scuba divers text one another underwater
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Scuba divers still rely on crude hand signals, but now thanks to a new communications technology they can text one another and it’s a game changer. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
AI is getting great at simulating and designing proteins and drugs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Proteins essentially make the life work, and by understanding them faster we can now create cures and treatments for diseases faster. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
New exotic protein rotors and axles will help nanomachines move faster
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our ability to create nano scale products is getting better fast, and these breakthroughs could transform every industry from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
An algorithm just learned how to design new proteins from scratch
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Proteins make “life” work, and now that an AI can design them from scracth it opens the door to potentially billions of new proteins which could transform everything from materials to healthcare. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
In a world first AI can now model the molecular machines that govern life itself
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Your body is a very complex machine and if we are to cure disease or even “conquer death” then we need to know everything about it, and now AI is unlocking more of its inner workings. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community,...
These tiny bio-electronic implants could treat Rheumatoid Arthritis
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Lots of people have rheumatoid arthritis and it’s a painful condition to have, but now new bioelectronic implants could eliminate most of that pain. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Amazing new grain sized nanocamera snaps amazing hi def images
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everything gets smaller and better, and camera systems are no exception which opens up all manner of new use cases and applications for them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
DARPA and GE developing truck mounted labs to churn out synthetic DNA and RNA vaccines
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are many parts of the world that need vaccines, especially in a pandemic, and this system will not only be fast it’ll be portable and be able to produce vaccines at scale. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself...
Deepfakes could soon spread to affect satellite and GIS imagery researchers find
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Earth imagery and mapping are important for all sorts of reasons, and there are real world implications if they’re manipulated. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Have you seen the latest deepfake...
Scientists demonstrate direct human brain to brain communication again
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF You get information into your head all the time – now scientists are trying to use technology to achieve it telepathically. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently there’s been a lot...
DeepMind’s protein folding AI conquers biology’s 50 year grand challenge
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to accurately model and predict how proteins fold has revolutionary implications for how fast we can create everything from new vaccines to new materials. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Google’s...
Georgia Tech secures grant to smash an Exabyte of data into a DNA sugarcube
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is producing vast quantities of information and today’s storage technologies are increasingly struggling to keep up. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute...
World’s spies finally get the bug on a wall cam they’ve been chasing for so long
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you ever wanted to spy on anyone the cameras of the future won’t disappoint. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. It’s long been known that bugs would make the perfect...
Synthetic proteins with “unlimited potential” usher in new era of smart cell therapies
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New synthetic proteins, that are artificially made and unseen in nature, could usher in a healthcare revolution and open the door to new individually tailored treatments. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Medicine has a “Goldilocks” problem. Many...
Doctor Dolittle researchers use AI to decode mice chatter
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Using AI to translate human languages is nothing new, but now we’re using the technology to help us decipher animal languages. Dolphins are getting in on the act, and now so are mice – having their language translated into something humans can understand using...
Microsoft have created an all in one desktop DNA storage device
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As our data volumes explode we need new ways to store it all, and DNA is a perfect solution – if we can get it to work. By all reports the modern world is facing a tsunami of data as we produce exabtyes of the...
Revolutionary bio-electronic implant heals nerves, then vanishes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many people around the world suffer from what is today irreparable nerve damage, but this new technology can repair these nerves, restore bodily functions, and disappear without trace. Lots of people, especially the military, are increasingly interested in creating electronic devices that disappear once...
Three people played Tetris telepathically together in world first
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As we unlock more secrets of the human brain we are slowly but surely getting better at communicating with each other telepathically. Telepathic communication is nothing new but it’s still in its early years as a technology. The first major telepathic breakthrough came in 2012...
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