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Scientists found the “holy grail” gene that could one day help humans regrow limbs | ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/…

Sir Cato T. Laurencin of UConn to Receive the 2026 Jensen Tissue Engineering Award - UConn Today today.uconn.edu/2026/05/sir-ca…

@EvanLuthra You forgot limb regeneration

🚨ANTHROPIC'S FOUNDER JUST PREDICTED THAT AI WILL DOUBLE HUMAN LIFESPAN TO 150 YEARS.. CURE MOST CANCER.. AND ELIMINATE POVERTY.. ALL WITHIN 10 YEARS.. AND HE'S NOT EVEN THE OPTIMISTIC ONE.. Everyone thinks Dario Amodei is the guy who wants to slow AI down.. The cautious one.. The safety guy.. He just published an essay predicting what happens if AI goes right.. And it reads like science fiction.. Except he's dead serious.. And he has the credentials to back every word.. Here's what he thinks happens in the next 5 to 10 years.. Nearly all infectious disease.. Prevented or cured.. mRNA vaccines already showed us the path.. AI finishes the job.. Most cancer.. Eliminated.. Not just treated.. 95% or greater reduction in both deaths and new cases.. AI designs treatment regimens tailored to the individual genome of each tumor.. Something that's technically possible today but takes enormous human expertise to do.. AI scales it to everyone.. Alzheimer's.. Solved.. He thinks it's exactly the type of problem AI can crack.. Because it requires better measurement tools to isolate what's actually happening in the brain.. Once we understand it.. Prevention will probably be surprisingly simple.. Genetic disease.. Most of it preventable through improved embryo screening.. And curable in living people through safer descendants of CRISPR.. Most mental illness.. Cured.. Depression.. PTSD.. Addiction.. Schizophrenia.. He believes the answer is some combination of biochemistry and neural network-level problems that AI can untangle.. And here's the line that stopped me.. Human lifespan.. Doubled.. To 150 years.. He points out that life expectancy already doubled in the 20th century.. From 40 to 75.. So doubling it again is "on trend".. Drugs already exist that increase maximum lifespan in rats by 25 to 50%.. Some turtles already live 200 years.. We're clearly not at a biological ceiling.. He calls this the "compressed 21st century".. The idea that AI gives us 100 years of biological progress in 5 to 10 years.. But he doesn't stop at health.. He thinks AI could drive 20% annual GDP growth in the developing world.. Bringing sub-Saharan Africa to China's current GDP per capita within a decade.. He thinks AI could eradicate malaria not through treating millions of people individually.. But by releasing modified mosquitoes that block the disease at the source.. One centralized action instead of a million.. He thinks AI could make democracy structurally stronger.. Not through propaganda.. But by giving every citizen an AI that knows every law they're entitled to.. Every benefit they qualify for.. Every right they have.. And helps them actually access it.. He imagines AI that monitors judicial systems for bias.. AI that helps find common ground between opposing political views.. AI that makes government services actually work the way they're supposed to.. And he addresses the question everyone asks.. What happens to meaning when AI can do everything.. His answer.. Most people aren't the best in the world at anything right now.. And it doesn't bother them.. Meaning comes from relationships and connection.. Not economic productivity.. People will still pursue difficult challenges.. Still compete.. Still create.. The fact that an AI could theoretically do it better won't matter any more than it matters that someone somewhere is already better than you at every hobby you have.. But here's what makes this essay different from every other AI optimism piece.. Dario Amodei runs one of the three most powerful AI companies on earth.. He has a PhD in computational neuroscience.. He personally worked on mass spectrometry and neural probes.. He's not a pundit.. He's a scientist who happens to be a CEO.. And the same man who publicly says there's a 25% chance AI causes human extinction.. Is also saying that if we get it right.. We cure nearly every disease.. Double human lifespan.. Eliminate most poverty.. And fundamentally transform what it means to be alive.. Both things are true at the same time.. That's what makes this the most important essay anyone in AI has written this year.. He ends with this.. "I think many will be literally moved to tears by it".. He's talking about watching disease disappear.. Poverty dissolve.. Human potential unlock all at once.. Not in a century.. In a decade.. If we get it right.

By scaling high-quality foundational datasets to train virtual cell models, we can directly accelerate progress against complex diseases. We look forward to working with Biohub and other partner organizations on this effort.

Today we're announcing the Virtual Biology Initiative—a major new commitment to build the data foundation biology needs to power the next generation of AI models. Next-gen imaging. Molecular engineering tools. Open data infrastructure for the entire scientific community. Read the full story: bit.ly/3ONTkHO

Anthropic reportedly acquired @CoefficientBio (~$400M). @AnthropicAI is expanding into biotech via Claude for Life Sciences alongside @altos_labs, @RetroBio_ , and @newlimit, signalling growing AI investment in #longevity and human #healthspan. theinformation.com/articles/anthr…

What if humans could regrow tissue? Texas A&M study moves science closer – Texas A&M Stories stories.tamu.edu/news/2026/04/2…

This is a very big deal! Incredible to see this acceleration in clinical trials happening thanks to the amazing leadership at @US_FDA! Accelerating clinical trials via AI is a key milestone toward my bold claim that we can treat/cure most, or even all, diseases within a decade!

🔴 LIVE NOW: FDA Commissioner @DrMakaryFDA announces FDA's real-time clinical trials initiative. This is a milestone moment for modernizing drug development. Watch: youtube.com/live/hPT6X4SKO…

No more Phase 1, 2, or 3 in clinical trials? The FDA is proposing using AI to get trial data in real-time from EHRs and giving trial design feedback based on what it sees. No more batch processing could eliminate the wait between phases and get therapies to market faster.

Today, the FDA announced two major milestones in implementing real-time clinical trials: 1️⃣ Successful Proofs-of-Concept: FDA unveiled proof-of-concept trials with AstraZeneca and Amgen that report endpoints and data signals in real time. 2️⃣ Pilot Program: The agency released a request for information (RFI) for a broader pilot program launching this summer. fda.gov/news-events/pr…

FDA to use AI to track clinical trials in real time trib.al/pF9qMmA

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan commit $500 million to AI biology trib.al/ME2x1PD

AMAZING!! Scientists bring human tissue regeneration closer to reality - Earth.com earth.com/news/human-tis…

Digit regeneration in mice is stimulated by sequential treatment with FGF2 and BMP2 | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Enhancer-directed gene delivery for digit regeneration based on conserved epidermal factors | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

SP8 Breakthrough: A Foundational Step Toward Human Limb Regeneration - Neuroscience News 🙌🏼🎉🏆 neurosciencenews.com/sp-gene-limb-r…

Scientists Turn On Hidden Genetic Switch That Could One Day Help Humans Regrow Lost Limbs zmescience.com/ecology/animal…

🚨Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @ScienceMagazine, we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #EvoDevo

Oxygen’s Role Uncovered: Key Factor in Limb Regeneration Revealed 🤩 bioengineer.org/oxygens-role-u…