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Last year, I gave a talk at CSIcon in Las Vegas about “The Future of Human Improvement,” and specifically about medical and technological breakthroughs that are on the horizon. I had given a similar talk the year before at the Cheltenham Science Festival, which needed several updates in just that one year that had passed – that’s how fast the science is developing! From engineering our immune systems to advances in human-machine interfaces, we are on the brink of some major breakthroughs that have only existed in science fiction and in our dreams. The point that I open my talk…

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isbscience.org/news/2024/10/12/resonance-celebrating-professor-ilya-shmulevichs-life-and-scientific-contributions/  Posted on October 12, 2024 Share on Facebook Tweet Share on LinkedIn Email ISB hosted a full-day symposium – titled Resonance – celebrating the life and scientific contributions of Professor Ilya Shmulevich, who passed away in April 2024 from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.  The symposium featured speakers whose research resonates with and has been profoundly influenced by Dr. Shmulevich’s work. Session topics included digital health, modeling and theory, and cancer genomics, reflecting the broad impact of his scientific legacy. The day-long event was recorded. You can…

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This year, we proudly celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Spanish Society for Developmental Biology (SEBD)—a milestone that marks three decades of passion, dedication, and collaboration among Spanish scientists worldwide, committed to uncovering the mechanisms that dictate the development of living organisms. Since its founding the 5th of May of 1994 by the visionary Antonio García-Bellido, SEBD has evolved into a vibrant and inclusive community, uniting established researchers with a growing number of emerging scientists eager to contribute to this dynamic and ever-evolving field. The integrative nature of developmental biology remains essential for understanding processes ranging from regeneration to evolution,…

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It has been a few weeks since the 15th Chinese Symposium on Biodiversity Science and Conservation, where the first “Seminar on Methods in Ecology and Evolution in China” was held. In these blog posts, we hear from some of the winners of the “Outstanding Young Scholar Award in Ecological and Evolutionary Methodology in China”. Here, winner Yi Zou discusses their research. Post provided by Yi Zou. I am an associate professor in the Department of Health and Environmental Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. My research primarily focuses on how changing landscapes affect insect diversity, pollination, and biological pest control services. I…

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isbscience.org/news/2024/10/28/a-gut-feeling-microbes-and-their-impacts-on-our-minds/  Posted on October 28, 2024 The trillions of commensal (non-harmful) microbes that live in and on our bodies contain a hundredfold more unique genes than we harbor within our genomes. Recent work has shown that many of these microbial genes are essential to the proper functioning of our bodies, with almost half of all metabolites in human blood significantly associated with variation in the ecology of the gut.  This metabolic cross-talk between our microbes and our bodies extends to all organ systems, including the central nervous system. There has been an explosion of research into the two-way communication between…

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In this SciArt profile, we meet Petra Korlević, a scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, interested in retrieving DNA from historic mosquito collections. Can you tell us about your background and what you work on now? I work on human malaria transmitting mosquitoes; population genetics, insecticide resistance, and currently trying to marry all that up with landscape genomics. My background is on getting DNA from difficult samples, for my PhD I worked on method development for ancient DNA extraction from bones and teeth, for my postdoc I developed a method for minimally morphologically destructive DNA extraction from museum pinned insects.…

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Image source: Wikimedia Commons. Some argue that our universe being fine-tuned for life is merely an accident. After all, there might be millions of flopped universes out there. There is no evidence for them but, they say, we can’t rule them out either. Durham University philosophy professor Philip Goff explains at IAI.TV why he doesn’t think that the idea of a multiverse can explain away the obvious fine-tuning of our universe. An Example of Fine-Tuning First, he offers an example of that fine-tuning,: The claim is just that, for life to be possible, certain numbers in physics had to fall in a very narrow range. For…

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isbscience.org/news/2024/11/13/americorps-member-faduma-hussein-joins-isb-as-public-health-ambassador-coordinator/  Posted on November 13, 2024 Faduma Hussein is the newest AmeriCorps member to join ISB. Faduma Hussein recently joined the ISB Education team as the Public Health Ambassador Coordinator, becoming only the fourth AmeriCorps member to serve at ISB. In this Q&A, she shares insights into her education, what drew her to ISB, career aspirations, and more. Please read on and get to know Faduma Hussein. ISB: How long have you been in the AmeriCorps? Faduma Hussein: I did a summer service term before I started my degree, but this is my first full year as a member. ISB:…

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No such thing as a standard career path – an interview with Sara Morais da Silva Sara Morais da Silva is currently a Reviews Editor at Journal of Cell Science, but publishing wasn’t her first calling. In fact, Sara has had years of experience in the lab, and then tried out careers in teaching and the industry. How did she end up as a journal editor? Here, we chatted to Sara about her research experiences, her ventures into various other careers, and why she ultimately decided to choose a career in publishing. Could you talk briefly about your research experience…

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By David Tuller, DrPH *This is a crowdfunding month for Trial By Error. Donations (tax-deductible to US tax-payers) go to the University of Calinfornia, Berkeley, to support the project. The link to the crowdfunding campaign is here: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/42302 In the past, Professor Michael Sharpe, one of the lead PACE investigators, has intervened in my Berkeley crowdfunding and given my efforts a significant–although presumably unintended–boost. In the spring of 2018, I spent six weeks traveling around Australia, a trip that overlapped with that April’s crowdfunding campaign. During the campaign, Jennie Spotila endorsed it with a lovely post on her blog Occupy M.E.,…

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