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Simon Spichak

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Covers:  Neuroscience, health, microbiome, neurotechnology, drug development, blockchain, biology, immunology
Neuroscience MSc 🦔 dad Founded @Resolvve_inc Words in Being Patient, National Geographic, MIT Tech Review, The Sick Times, JMIR etc.
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We Might Be Treating Schizophrenia All Wrong

We Might Be Treating Schizophrenia All Wrong

For more than 70 years, doctors treated the symptoms of schizophrenia-delusions, hallucinations, cognitive im…

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Will This Drug Help Us Beat Alzheimer’s? Or Will It Doom Its Makers Instead?

Will This Drug Help Us Beat Alzheimer’s? Or Will It Doom Its Makers Instead?

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Crypto Mines Are Making Life a 'Daily Hell' in This Town

Crypto Mines Are Making Life a 'Daily Hell' in This Town

"The natural beauty and tranquility of our area is in jeopardy," C. Roberson's petition on Change.org reads. …

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How Crypto Is Failing Spectacularly to Greenwash Itself

How Crypto Is Failing Spectacularly to Greenwash Itself

"Imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin." That's how one …

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Why Is Everyone So Mad About Aduhelm? - Being Patient

Why Is Everyone So Mad About Aduhelm? - Being Patient

Helped assemble a 2018 consortium that led to a biomarker-based definition of Alzheimer's, controversial beca…

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Startups Are Rushing to Prescribe a New Weight Loss Drug, But Questions Remain

Startups Are Rushing to Prescribe a New Weight Loss Drug, But Questions Remain

For Zoe, it started with a news article. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved a new weight los…

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George Church Raises $15M to Bring Woolly Mammoths Back From the Dead

George Church Raises $15M to Bring Woolly Mammoths Back From the Dead

A biotech startup helmed by provocative Harvard geneticist George Church has secured $15 million in funding t…

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Departed Neuralink Co-Founder Locks Down $47 Million for Secretive Neuroscience Startup

Departed Neuralink Co-Founder Locks Down $47 Million for Secretive Neuroscience Startup

When Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak announced his enigmatic departure from the company earlier this year, it …

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Did Elon Musk Quietly Fire the President of Neuralink?

Did Elon Musk Quietly Fire the President of Neuralink?

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface venture, Neuralink, remains highly secretive. The overarching idea, of c…

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Neural Dust: Millimeter-Sized Brain Stimulators | BioSpace

Neural Dust: Millimeter-Sized Brain Stimulators | BioSpace

While Neuralink , Elon Musk's startup-venture focused on creating a brain-computer interface, garners lots of…

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