Edge.org, 2016 | Article
An interview for Edge.org on why we don't understand the brain and why neural tools that aim for getting 'ground truth' data — going for the most fundamental level of detail possible — will help.
World Economic Forum, 2016 | Watch
A lecture on why 21st century problems are harder than 20th century problems — and how we can solve them through developing new kinds of science that reduce risk by being systematic and avoiding assumptions:
Andrew W. Lo, Carole Ho, Jayna Cummings and Kenneth S. Kosik | Science Translational Medicine, 2014 | Article
MIT business school professor Andrew Lo explains how we understand so little about Alzheimer's disease that it's actually too high a risk for most companies to tackle. Perhaps the solution is to lower the risk by getting fundamental understandings of Alzheimer's.
Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review, 2015 | Article
One of the challenges with biotechnology generally is that biology feels too complicated and too random. It feels like there are too many things that can go wrong. By accelerating fundamental understanding, we can reduce this risk.
Greg Miller | Science, 2010 | Article
An article about how brain disorders are so complex, industry is kind of giving up on them.