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1 month ago | 
worksinprogress.co | Ruxandra Teslo |Samuel Watling |Étienne Fortier-Dubois
In 2020, an odd food product hit the shelves of North American supermarkets, courtesy of the agrofood company Del Monte. It was a new type of pineapple, called the ‘Pinkglow’, notable for the color of its flesh: not the typical yellow, but a striking pink. It retailed for US$49, ten or twenty times as much as a regular pineapple. The hefty price tag was justified by the Pinkglow’s long development time. Del Monte claims it spent 16 years genetically engineering it.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
slowboring.com | Ruxandra Teslo
This piece was prepared for the Clinical Trials Abundance Initiative, a project by the Institute for Progress (IFP) with support from Renaissance Philanthropy, and presented at a policy workshop in Washington, DC on October 7th, 2024. Willy Chertman, M.D., is a Biotechnology Fellow at Institute for Progress and an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He was formerly a Biosecurity Fellow in the office of Senator Todd Young (R-IN).
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Dan J. Woodcock |Ruxandra Teslo |Vinayak Bhandari |Andreas Gruber
AbstractThe development of cancer is an evolutionary process involving the sequential acquisition of genetic alterations that disrupt normal biological processes, enabling tumor cells to rapidly proliferate and eventually invade and metastasize to other tissues. We investigated the genomic evolution of prostate cancer through the application of three separate classification methods, each designed to investigate a different aspect of tumor evolution.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
capx.co | Ruxandra Teslo
Birth rates are worryingly low, but policy interventions don't work Only a quarter of Americans view parenthood as key to a fulfilling life New tech could allow women to start a family on their own timelineThe baby bust is moving up the political agenda. is the title of a new OECD report.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Ruxandra Teslo
This is not primarily a politics blog, and commenting on specific candidates is not something that I want to make a habit of. However, with the upcoming election and the recent debate, I think it has become somewhat unavoidable to discuss the way in which the current political landscape impinges upon what I do actually care about: advancing a pro-abundance agenda. Last month I argued that Pro-progress will win when it wins women.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
writingruxandrabio.com | Ruxandra Teslo
After publishing my article "Why haven't biologists cured cancer?", I experienced firsthand the benefits of a diverse readership, as responses to my piece revealed a clear and interesting divide among readers. Those working in biotechnology were overwhelmingly more likely to disagree, in public and in private, with what they perceived to be one of the central premises of the article: that progress in medicine is too slow/ underwhelming.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
writingruxandrabio.com | Ruxandra Teslo |Alice Evans
When I started my undergraduate studies in 2016 in the UK, the gender wage gap was a prominent topic among the civically-minded and well-intentioned. It was uncommon to go to an event organized by a women-focused society (think Oxford Women in Business) and not have it mentioned at least once.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
psychiatrymargins.com | Awais Aftab |Ted Gioia |Ruxandra Teslo
Macroculture and microculture describe different levels of cultural analysis, reflecting the scale and scope of cultural influences and behaviors within a society. Both macrocultures and microcultures coexist, interacting and influencing each other within a society. Macroculture is the overarching or dominant culture in a society or group. It encompasses the shared values, norms, beliefs, practices, and institutions that are widely recognized.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
writingruxandrabio.com | Ruxandra Teslo |Nate Silver |Matthew Yglesias
Today had a good piece arguing that Democrats have basically shot themselves in the foot by ignoring Biden’s obvious signs of decline. Instead of facing reality, they preferred to lie to themselves that the very legitimate worries about his age were down to “misinformation” spread by nefarious actors. Yet, ultimately, reality caught up with Biden and the Democratic establishment and now the party is pretty much stuck with a candidate that stands a very slim chance of defeating Trump.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
writingruxandrabio.com | Ruxandra Teslo
A few weeks ago, a lot of people on academic X quickly forgot about their support for “Women in STEM” and got angry at, of all people, Katalin Karikó, the used in COVID-19 vaccines and 2023 Nobel Prize winner. Her crime? A passage from her book where she laments that academia involved way too much people pleasing and political games for her.
