Drug Company to Share Revenues With #Indigenous People Who Donated Their Genes. Variant Bio of Seattle, is using genetic information from Indigenous people to develop drugs for obesity and diabetes, by Brendan Borrell nytimes.com/2025/01/07/hea… via @NYThealth #bioethics

Epic & entertaining tale looking at origins and current situation of largest oil palm plantations in Peruvian Amazon Includes behind the scenes look at related story of United Cacao in northern Peru, of which I was personally involved Brendan Borrell Amazon Conservation thefern.org/2024/12/a-palm…

U.S. investors illegally razed 30,000 acres of Peruvian rainforest to make way for palm oil plantations which now generate $50M in revenue from business with companies including Cheetos, Colgate, & Pepsi. Grantee Brendan Borrell reports for Business Insider. 👉bit.ly/3C5pPL4

🧵 Well, friends, after a long, epic run at Bloomberg, I'm launching my own thing - Core Memory - a sci-tech media company making movies, shows, pods and stories. We're going deep on brains, energy, AI, transporation, manufacturing, you name it. And we could use your help.

"Writers who can see a path to making films and television shows on their own, with the creative control and money that come along with that, have more reason than ever to jump ship." semafor.com/article/01/12/…

SCOOP: Insiders at a RFK Jr.-led nonprofit questioned why/how he funneled $67 million to a small environmental group he & a hedge-fund billionaire helped set up in the Bahamas. A board member resigned over this, noting he couldn't get RFK to explain it. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

"During my fact-checking process for an upcoming magazine feature on him, Bryan Johnson had some concerns. They centered on his nighttime erections." 🔥 lede on this by Ashlee Vance for #corememory open.substack.com/pub/ashleevanc…

New words - The Digital Natives have given way to AI Natives corememory.com/p/a-young-man-…

Outside in its heyday was one of the best magazines that ever existed. I'm proud I got to be part of that. It was thriving before the pandemic, and I firmly believe it would have thrived again post-pandemic if it had remained a stand-alone brand. What a waste.

"The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now": Our Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky reflect on RFK Jr.'s use of scientific papers at his hearings. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

The 2024 SABEW Business Awards have been announced, and we’re excited to share that Business Insider received three honorable mentions in the categories of Explanatory, Feature & Government! Congrats to Aki Ito, Brendan Borrell & Cecilia Reyes! 🎉 sabew.org/2025/03/2024-b…

U.S. prosecutors probe a politically explosive tip that Pfizer in 2020 delayed announcing a successful Covid-19 vaccine until after the election that Trump lost to Biden wsj.com/health/pharma/… via The Wall Street Journal

Re-upping this in light of recent news of the Pfizer probe theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Can AI fix the weather forecast? Ryder reports on WindBorne, the balloon-powered startup going head-to-head with world's biggest tech companies. corememory.com/p/its-ai-versu…

Operation Warp Speed was the most successful government program in decades. And mRNA vaccines were critical to that success. But RFK Jr. is committed to undermining that progress rather than building on it.

Over at Core Memory eryney marrogi writes about the moment "when the promise of personalized gene therapy finally crystallized" and an all-hands-on-deck hustle saved a baby named KJ Muldoon. corememory.com/p/the-new-gene…

Just a tremendous weekend read from eryney marrogi. We are at the precipice of mass miracles and the end of much pain and suffering corememory.com/p/the-new-gene…

Meet Richard Frye, whose research record on leucovorin traces the gulf between promise and proof. By Brendan Borrell thetransmitter.org/spectrum/exclu…