Writing
Technical work, said plainly.
Two pieces. A translation that puts a published abstract next to a plain-language version of the same finding, and an assessment of what AI-designed viruses do and don't yet represent.
- 01 More than a wall An alarm raised in the foot puts the brain on antiviral alert days before any virus could arrive. The blood-brain barrier turns out to be more active in immune communication than expected.
- 02 The threat of novelty A Science paper reported the first AI-designed viruses. What the result establishes, what it does not, and why the distance to a dangerous organism is longer than the headlines suggested.