Observer of both nature and human nature. Enjoyer of life. Traveler of the U.S. and select foreign countries.
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Times, they are a changin’
this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical
i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs
but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now.
it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them
the last 6 months alone:
- a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months)
- a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months
- a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year
- a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3
- retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3
- an ai-designed drug entered phase 3
- a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3
- an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved
- a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney
- human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors, and it changes how the neighbors behave
we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday
stick around, it's going to get weird
bio/acc
#Dessa. Game changer.
Cute little buggers! On a quest to revive the woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has created a woolly mouse techcrunch.com/2025/03/04/on… via @techcrunch
😳
Hey @grok, is this true??
Some data centers now run on lab-grown human brain neurons derived from stem cells, wired directly to silicon chips via electrode arrays, and kept alive on life support. Fed sugar every few days. They play Doom. We don’t know if they’re conscious.
This company is doing magical stuff. Transmuting zinc into radioactive isotopes of copper used in cancer diagnostics and cutting-edge therapies, turning mercury into gold… 😳
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
Well deserved! I’ve been there and it’s incredible.
America’s newest national park is rock solid!
Chiricahua is officially our 64th national park. Welcome to the "Wonderland of Rocks."
ALT Lightning strikes beneath dark storm clouds over the rocky landscape of Chiricahua. Green vegetation surrounds clusters of towering rock formations, with a pink glow along the distant horizon.
Bush International Airport in Houston has long been a disaster. Today was extra fun. Trying to park to pick up our 80-year old family friend, we were told to go to Terminal C arrivals for baggage claim, even though she was flying into Terminal E. 🤷♂️ So we go to Terminal C, up the ramp to the parking garage. We’re stopped by yellow-vested people who ask if we have reservations. “Reservations to park?” I asked. She nodded. I had no reservations, so she sent me left into the garage to get a ticket, after which I was supposed to immediately scan my ticket and leave, free of charge, and drive to A/B parking lot and take a train back to C. But i couldn’t get out because the guy in front of me hadn’t played along and grabbed his free ticket. So the arm bar wouldn’t raise to let us out. So the yellow vests made me and everyone behind me back up and they guided us to another exit. It also didn’t work, even with my valid ticket. So a yellow vest tore the arm bar assembly apart and touched wires together to get the bar to raise so I could get out. It got worse from there, but I’ll spare the details. I wish I was making this up.
This will make me more likely to visit KFC! coca-colacompany.com/media-c…
This is going to be awesome!
The only other person who’s ever made me this excited about a product unveil was Steve Jobs. Watching him introduce the first iPhone is a huge part of why I fell in love with technology.
Elon brings that feeling back for me, but honestly, I think he takes it to a whole different level. Tomorrow, he and the Tesla team are unveiling the next-gen Roadster, and I seriously cannot wait.
The Roadster they showed in 2017 already promised 0–60 mph in 1.9 seconds. Since then, Elon has talked about a Tesla–SpaceX collaboration, having it fly, and getting that time below ONE second, and calling it “the least interesting part” of the car.
How do you say something like that and expect me NOT to be excited?!
But beyond how fast it goes, I want to see something that makes me sit there and say, “Wow… how in the world did they build that?” I honestly don’t know what they’re going to show us, and that’s part of what makes this so much fun. I really want to be surprised and see the unthinkable.
These days I feel many older people don’t get that excited about things… I only see that spark in kids. But imo, we should still get excited about people building cool things. We should still root for the nerds, engineers, and designers trying to do something that has never been done before.
And I hope there’s a kid watching tomorrow who feels what I felt watching Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone. Someone who sees this car and starts wondering how it works, sketching their own ideas, or thinking about what they could build someday.
I hope y’all are ready to have your minds blown.
I’m rooting for you, Elon, and the entire Tesla team behind this car.
Go give us a night we’ll never forget!
Impressive!
Atlet freediving Indonesia, Dimas Andika Muflihulafi, berhasil memecahkan Rekor Nasional Freediving di ajang AIDA World Championship 2026 yang berlangsung di Limassol, Siprus.
Turun di nomor Constant Weight (CWT), Dimas sukses mencapai kedalaman 85 meter dan meraih white card, tanda bahwa penyelamannya dinyatakan berhasil.
Rekor ini semakin memperpanjang daftar catatan gemilang Dimas di tahun 2026. Sebelumnya, ia juga sukses memecahkan rekor nasional di nomor Free Immersion (FIM) sedalam 81 meter pada ajang Manado Depth Championship di September lalu.