Max G. Levy

3 weeks ago | sequencermag.com | Max G. Levy

This week I toured a training wing at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and all I could think about was Nathan Fielder. In this season of Fielder's The Rehearsal series on HBO, the comedian exposes a tense shortcoming in modern aviation: communication between pilots. The immersive way that hospital staff role play bore a striking resemblance. For the uninitiated, The Rehearsal is an awkward, absurd experiment in comedy.

1 month ago | spektrum.de | Max G. Levy

Hintergrund Lesedauer ca. 8 Minuten DruckenTeilen Computergestützte Biologie: Wie ein mathematisches Modell Korallenriffe retten könnteEine einzige Korallenart kann viele verschiedene Formen bilden. Bislang war unklar, wie und warum. Ein Team aus Physikern und Biologen hat das Rätsel nun möglicherweise geknackt. Übersetzung ausLänger, als sie sich erinnern kann, geht Eva Llabrés schnorcheln.

1 month ago | drugdiscoverynews.com | Max G. Levy

A new approach for gene editing will get its shot in a common and chronic autoimmune disorder. Credit: iStock.com/JohnceA new approach for gene editing will get its shot in a common and chronic autoimmune disorder. Register for free to listen to this articleAt the root of anything good or bad in the human immune system is a question about recognition. When the immune system functions correctly, it clocks unrecognized bacteria and viruses.

1 month ago | sequencermag.com | Max G. Levy

This article was produced in partnership with The Sick Times, a journalist-founded website chronicling the Long COVID crisis. When a pandemic begins, so does the blame game. Early days of COVID-19 pointed fingers at wild meat markets and debunked lab leak conspiracies, and that crystallized a long-running narrative that outbreaks are generally humans’ fault; roll the dice enough times with wildlife and you’re bound to land on a plague.

1 month ago | sequencermag.com | Max G. Levy

The Trump administration’s assault on research institutions threatens countless people’s livelihoods and security at all levels of the country’s scientific enterprise. Non-government researchers, students, professors, postdoctoral fellows, and even researchers funded by private foundations — all face radical changes to their careers and risk indefinite detours to their life’s work. I recently caught up with Max Kozlov, a science reporter at Nature who has been all over these regressive policies.