A Science of Wholeness Awaits Us

Just as the melody is not made up of notes nor the verse of words nor the statue of lines, but they must be tugged and dragged till their unity has been scattered into these many pieces, so with the World to whom I say Thou. — Martin Buber We creatures of the 21st Century, grandchildren of … Read more

What to Look For in a Biological Clock

In this article, I’m reporting on  a new proteomic clock from Adiv Johnson and the Stanford lab of Benoit Lehalier a new methylation clock developed with “deep learning” algorithms by an international group from Hong Kong  the advanced methylation clock developed by Morgan Levine, Len Guarente, and Elysium Health Prelude Aging clocks = algorithms that compute biological age from … Read more

Deep Mind Knows how Proteins Fold

This week, Deep Mind, a London-based Google company, claims to have solved the number one most consequential problem in computational biochemistry: the protein-folding problem.  If true, this could be the start of something big. What does it mean, and why is it important? Let’s start with signal transduction. This is a word for the body’s … Read more