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RNA Medicines, Human Genetics & The Future of Obesity Treatment | Dr. Erik Ingelsson

Dr. Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD — Chief Scientific Officer of Wave Life Sciences.

For decades we’ve measured obesity using one simple number on a scale — but what if that’s the wrong metric? Today, one of the world’s leading experts in genetics explains why the future of obesity medicine may not be about losing more weight, but about losing the right kind of fat while preserving the muscle that keeps us healthy.

Dr. Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD is a physician-scientist and internationally recognized leader in human genetics, genomics, and metabolic disease research. He currently serves as Chief Scientific Officer at Wave Life Sciences (https://wavelifesciences.com/), where he leads the development of next-generation RNA medicines designed to address major unmet medical needs.

Before joining Wave, Dr. Ingelsson served as Senior Vice President and Head of Target Discovery at GSK, where he led large-scale efforts integrating human genetics, functional genomics, computational biology, and molecular science to discover and validate new drug targets across therapeutic areas.

Prior to his transition into industry, Dr. Ingelsson was Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, where his laboratory used human genetics and functional genomics to uncover new biological mechanisms underlying insulin resistance, obesity, metabolic disease, and cardiovascular risk.

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A way to read quantum bits faster and with less hardware

Quantum computers process information in a fundamentally different way from conventional computers, using quantum bits, or qubits, that can exist in multiple states at once. This could allow them to tackle problems beyond the reach of today’s machines, from simulating new materials to optimizing complex systems.

But to extract useful results from a quantum processor, researchers must reliably measure the state of each qubit, a task that remains one of the main bottlenecks in the field.

One of the leading approaches to building quantum computers uses superconducting circuits that carry current without resistance at extremely low temperatures.

Scientists demonstrate transition between strong and weak coupling regimes in a polariton microcavity

Researchers from Skoltech, together with colleagues from the N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry and Westlake University, have experimentally demonstrated how the operating regime of a polariton laser changes with a gradual increase in cavity thickness.

They demonstrated a smooth transition between strong and weak coupling regimes within a single structure in the visible spectral range using the organic copolymer MeLPPP. The study opens opportunities for developing ultrafast optical transistors and room-temperature coherent light sources. The results of the study have been published in the journal Nanophotonics.

A polariton is a quasiparticle representing a hybrid of light and matter, formed through the interaction of photons with a semiconductor structure. When a critical density of polaritons in the sample is reached, their wave functions synchronize, and the quasiparticles relax to the lowest-energy state, forming a polariton condensate—a coherent macroscopic state and a source of coherent light.

Critical TeamCity Flaw Could Let Attackers Run OS Commands Without Logging In

JetBrains is urging customers of on-premise versions of TeamCity to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security issue that could result in arbitrary code execution.

The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026–63077 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects all TeamCity On-Premises versions. It has been addressed in versions 2025.11.7 and 2026.1.3. TeamCity Cloud instances have already been updated. JetBrains has credited Antoni Tremblay with discovering and reporting the flaw on July 10, 2026.

“If exploited, this flaw may enable an unauthenticated attacker with HTTP(S) access to a TeamCity server to bypass authentication checks and execute arbitrary operating system commands with the privileges of the TeamCity server process,” JetBrains said.

Intel Emerges as America’s Only LeadingEdge Chipmaker as RAMPC Hands the Department of War Domestic 18A Production

Intel has completed its RAMP-C program, which now aims to enable customers to move from test chips to domestic high-volume manufacturing.

Press Release: Intel Foundry has completed the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes — Commercial (RAMP-C) program. Launched in September 2021, the program supported development of domestic, leading-edge CMOS technology and manufacturing in the United States, establishing a foundation for expanded trusted domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

Insect-inspired electronic nose: Turning semiconductor chips into olfactory sensors

Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego integrated the olfactory receptor of an insect called a jumping bristletail into semiconductor chips made of graphene, creating an electronic nose capable of sniffing out a wide variety of small organic compounds. This biomimetic bioelectronic sensor can detect and distinguish between molecules that are difficult for conventional electronic sensors to differentiate. This work opens the door to building semiconductor-based chemical sensing systems inspired by nature for applications in health care, environmental monitoring, food quality, agriculture and biodefense.

In a paper published in Advanced Materials, researchers led by bioengineers at UC San Diego describe a method for manufacturing the MhOR5 odorant receptor from the insect Machilis hrabei at scale and chemically attaching the purified MhOR5 protein to high-performance graphene field effect transistors (gFETs). gFETs are semiconductor devices that rely on graphene instead of silicon as the conductive material, resulting in exceptional sensitivity to molecular changes.

The researchers tested their MhOR5-functionalized gFETs against 16 chemically diverse compounds, including DEET, hexanol and eugenol, at different concentrations. The sensor produced a concentration-dependent electrical response for each of the 16 compounds.

New quantum chip architecture could use built-in vibrations to link distant qubits

A new concept from Warwick researchers could help solve one of the biggest challenges to building large-scale quantum computers: enabling communication between vast numbers of quantum bits (qubits) over long distances across a single chip.

Published in APL Quantum, researchers from the University of Warwick and NRC Canada introduce the concept of Quantum Phononic Links (QPLs), a new approach to communication between qubits. It uses sound-like vibrations traveling through a specially engineered material to carry quantum information between qubits that are physically far apart.

Today’s leading quantum chips typically allow only neighboring qubits to communicate directly with each other. To build useful quantum computers, engineers expect to need to coordinate millions of qubits spread across an entire semiconductor chip, not just clusters of adjacent qubits. The team’s proposed approach uses sound vibrations, known as phonons, as an inherent communication system, allowing qubits to exchange quantum information over much greater distances than currently possible.

New sensing method measures laser-cutting depth by tracking vaporization recoil

Laser dicing, a technique that uses focused laser pulses to separate individual chips from a semiconductor wafer, is increasingly favored over mechanical blade cutting because it can process delicate, low-strength materials with minimal physical stress. However, achieving proper yield requires precise control over the process.

If pulses fall short, they leave a wafer only partially cut, while excessive pulses can damage the material or the tape used to hold it. While techniques for monitoring processing depth exist, most are too slow or fragile for use on production lines.

Now, a team of researchers led by Professor Hirofumi Hidai from the Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan, focused on a different signal: recoil force. Recoil force is the minute reaction force generated on a material’s surface when it is rapidly heated and vaporized by a laser pulse.

Steam forum ClickFix attacks infect gamers with XMRig cryptominers

Steam discussion forums are being abused in ClickFix attacks that pretend to be fixes for game and computer problems but actually infect devices with cryptominers.

BleepingComputer learned of the campaign from a reader, who told us threat actors are creating random Steam accounts to post what appears to be helpful fixes for people’s posts about games crashing, lost inventory items, and other technical issues.

The threat actors reply to posts, telling other members to open PowerShell as an administrator and run a command to fix the issue. However, when executing the command, it quietly downloads an XMRig miner executable and launches it on the computer.