Martin PROKS


Week 21 (19-24/05/2025)

👾 IT

  • Well, Google just dropped Veo 3 at I/o Keynote which generates quite realistic shorts videos (link).

🔬Science

  • Long read on about mitochondria, their fascinating history (originally bacteria which was consumed by an ancestral cell long time ago); fascinating functioning thought “social” queues and link to numerous diseases (link).
  • Gharibi et al., 2025 introduces 3D model culturing hESCs towards post-gastrulation amnion. A big milestone as it allows researchers to study and perturb this developmental process in vitro. These models could be provided as an alternative amniotic membranes in future clinical settings (link).
  • Abukar et al., 2025 uses light-sheet microscopy to track hearth development in mouse providing new insights into the intricacies of cell movement and coordination (link).
  • Great podcast episode from Quanta Magazine discussing latest research on how LLM are not as great as initially thought when it comes to learning “new” languages (link).
  • Using specialized process to treatment steel with stainless steel, a young startup Allium Engineering can extend the lifetime of steel by making it resistant against corrosion (link).
  • Have I Been Pwned 2.0 is out packing some new features (link).
  • The Semantic Search Engine for ArXiv (link).
  • When you live around Bay Area and you want to save some money on electricity with solar, have a look at this deep dive by Joe (link).

🔧 Tools