Future Jist 13
Your weekly curation of 4 impactful future-oriented stories.
🐔️Cultured meat has been approved for consumers for the first time: We may be nearing a world in which our nourishment does not rely on the slaughter of other animals. Such a world also means the dramatic decline of Carbon emissions. Just recently, Singapore passed legislation allowing Just, a cultured foods company, to sell its products directly to consumers. This is the first of many to come. There’s quite a lot of money being poured into the area, with some big names like Bill Gates investing heavily. (821 words)
👩🔬️It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures: Now onto the biggest news of the past week. DeepMind claims to have solved The Protein Folding Problem; a problem that has bugged biologists for a long while. To understand the significance of this potential breakthrough, I refer to Andrei Lupas, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute, who simply says:
This will change medicine. It will change research. It will change bioengineering. It will change everything.
But as always, any claim of revolutionary breakthrough— especially in scientific fields— is met with skeptics. Only time will tell whether Deep Mind has outdone itself. (1782 words)
💊️Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine authorised for use in the UK: Turning our attention to the problem most obvious to many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic. In a surprising move to many, the UK became the first nation to authorize the emergency use of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. It may start vaccination as early as next week. (294 words)
💡️UK takes step towards world's first nuclear fusion power station: The UK aspires to be first in another area as well. It hopes to host the first running nuclear fusion power station. The Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production or STEP for short will be connected to the electrical grid to see how it performs on a day to day basis. (693 words)
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