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@lindaavey
GP Humain Ventures/Co-founder 23andMe/ Board of Fellows Stanford Med/Director Human Immunome Project/Advisor Autism Impact Fund, Giant, Colossal Bio
As a co-founder of 23andMe, with all the recent news I felt it was time to express my views on the company, after witnessing the downfall of an idea and brand that could have become the world’s leading digital health platform. The idea for 23andMe came to me after years working…
An important and moving piece on preeclampsia by @neel_shah with a personal story from @deenashakir. The good news--looks like we're closer to a clinical dx tool. open.substack.com/pub/mavenprepr…
Bittersweet note from my daughter’s poetry publication @spectrapoets 😔
Nikolay Shargorodsky submitted poems in the winter of 2021. Between publishing the second and third, he passed away. Published his poem "Expression Goes On" a week after his death without knowing it. Months later, his mom reached out with the news. Then she sent me "Romance."…
I explained the case for why AI can't be conscious in this convo with Alex Murshak. Most of the leading theories of consciousness are incompatible with physics. They violate locality in time and space, and require extrinsic computation that must solve vast NP-complete problems.…
Hacking State 55 - @aneilbaboo: Why AI Can't Be Conscious - The "hard" phenomenology of consciousness - Limits of radical materialism - Why brains aren't like classical computers - Computational intractability of consciousness - AI Civil Rights issue - Austin leading mind tech
In #Barcelona for the #scienceofconsciousness conference listening to my friend @aneilbaboo present his contention that #AIConsciousness is not physically possible. @lindaavey
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ancient Egyptian go.nature.com/4ntxPbT
Fun walk down memory lane. I moved to the Bay Area in 1985, right when the Well was going online. Wish I’d met @janemetcalfe back then. And the beat goes on! Talking to @larrybrilliant this week about his startup. bbc.com/future/article…
#Genetic and chemical analysis of 14,000-year-old Siberian "puppies" confirms they were wolf cubs, not early dogs, deepening the mystery of dog domestication origins. @uniofyork phys.org/news/2025-06-f…
Yet another reason to map the human immune system @ImmunomePro
New research using data from over 55,000 people has found that low-grade inflammation is associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and impaired memory. The results offer evidence that immune system activity may play a causal role in mental health. dlvr.it/TLDpGf
AI-driven scams--be on the lookout.
I almost got scammed yesterday! I'll post it all here to showcase the anatomy of an online scam in the time of LLMs. 1. I received this invitation to speak at a tech summit at a well known University in China.
Wondering if @inductive_bio uses pharmacogenetics in their ADMET predictive AI... Flatiron Health veterans raise $25 million for AI tool to forecast drug toxicity statnews.com/2025/05/07/fla… via @statnews
.@function's vision for comprehensive health tracking just expanded to full body MRI through the acquisition of @ezrainc. 6% of Ezra customers found early cancers. The sooner the better. Early cancer detection has 80% survival rate, versus 20% at late stage acc. to American…
Based on what I’m hearing on the bids for 23andMe, I think it makes most sense for customers to download their data first, then delete their accounts. Some of the more reputable bidders are deciding to drop out, given all the challenges 23andMe faces. In the future, there may be…