This gene therapy company says its muscle-building treatment could last around 5 years.
The surprising part?
They believe the fastest path to market may be cosmetic enhancement using consumer demand to accelerate therapies for frailty and age-related muscle loss.
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Fear memories fade faster when brain immune cells engage key neurons, study suggests
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders are often characterized by fearful responses in specific situations that the mind learns to view as threatening. These fearful responses typically emerge following traumatic events or challenging life experiences, which prompt the brain to form unhelpful associations between specific stimuli and distressing events.
The fearful responses associated with PTSD or anxiety disorders can gradually diminish via a process known as fear extinction. This process entails the repeated exposure to a situation or stimulus perceived as threatening, but without any danger arising.
Understanding the neurobiological processes that support fear extinction could be very valuable, as it could help to devise new therapeutic strategies for treating symptoms of PTSD and anxiety disorders. While many past studies explored the role of neurons in fear extinction, fewer investigated the contribution of microglia, immune cells that reside in the brain and spinal cord.
It’s not just deep sleep: Anesthesia drives brain into a strange state doctors are only beginning to map
People often describe anesthesia as something that puts a patient in a “deep sleep.” An anesthesiologist enters the operating room, and part of their mission is to ensure that the patient is completely unaware of what is happening around them until they wake up, often several hours later. Scientists and doctors have long debated what happens to the brain under anesthetic drugs during a surgical procedure.
A new study by Yale School of Medicine’s Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurology published on May 11, 2026, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uncovers new insights which may change the way we describe being under anesthesia. The study, “Spectral mapping reveals a resemblance of the anesthetic brain state to both sleep and coma,” reveals that being anesthetized may be more than simply being “put to sleep.” It can potentially carry more similarities to being in a coma than we originally thought.
Frank J. Tipler: The Laws of Physics Say The Singularity is Inevitable!
13 years ago, a Tulane physicist told me I didn’t understand the laws of physics.
That’s why, he said, I can’t see why the Singularity is inevitable. Or why it’s perfectly compatible with Christianity.
Fair enough.
Dr. Frank J. Tipler is the cosmologist behind the Omega Point. He is a professor of mathematical physics at Tulane University, and the author of The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, The Physics of Immortality, and The Physics of Christianity.
He didn’t come on Singularity FM to soften his views. He came to defend them.
In one hour we covered:
Dario Amodei & Marc Benioff: Future of AI
Marc Benioff and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei discuss the future of AI and the leadership required to ensure responsible governance and ethical deployment.
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Robotics’ End Game: Nvidia’s Jim Fan
Dream Zero: NVIDIA’s latest paradigm where a robot “dreams” its success in a world model before executing the motor commands in reality [[06:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y8aq_ofEVs&t=372)].
Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, returns to AI Ascent to argue that robotics is entering its end game — and that the playbook is already written. He walks through what he calls \.