Future Jist 14
Your weekly curation of 4 impactful future-oriented stories.
💊️Research team develops software that cuts time, cost from gene sequencing: These past few weeks have been incredible to live through especially if one loves the novelties that science and technology have to offer. More recently, a research team developed a method that will make it faster and dramatically cheaper to perform DNA sequencing. UNCALLED or Utility for Nanopore Current Alignment to Large Expanses of DNA took 2 years to code and is bound to revolutionize a lot in the biomedical world, which in turn means our own lives. (680 words)
👁️Scientists reverse age-related vision loss, eye damage from glaucoma in mice: This has been one of the biggest stories this week in the midst of some pretty crazy breakthroughs and details the first successful attempt at reversing the damage of glaucoma rather than curbing its progression. (1362 words)
👨🌾️This vertical farm in Denmark will grow 1,000 tons of local greens a year: The all-pervasive Danish winter has meant that Denmark has had to import quite a bit of its food from various countries. One vertical farm, in particular, seeks to provide some nutritional autonomy. (390 words)
🤖️Pennsylvania legalizes autonomous delivery robots, classifies them as pedestrians: And in some more policy-oriented news, with massive regulatory implications, Pennsylvania legalizes Personal Delivery Devices or PDDs as they call them. Whenever we see legislation of this sort, they tend to be hinting at a wave, not just in a state. This in particular could hint at a massive wave of automation. Is this something we should be scared of? Will it cause mass layoffs? Probably not immediately. But only time will tell what sort of large scale effects this may invoke. (510 words)
If you’re new to this newsletter, why not subscribe? Get the most impactful future-oriented stories of the week, sent directly to you. The best part? It’s entirely free!
Share this article and help others find this amazing content.
Want to help keep this newsletter alive? You can support us on Patreon.
Thanks for reading and till next time.