My family and I left Russia for good in 2014, after the Russian annexation of Crimea. And this summer, we officially completed the process of renouncing our Russian citizenship.
Yuri Milner
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Yuri Milner
@yurimilner
Science and Technology Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist.
Joined August 2018
- Julia and I are devastated by the horrific unprovoked attacks on Israel. To address the immediate needs of thousands of affected families, the Breakthrough Foundation is donating $5 million to the @JewishAgency to provide both emergency aid and longer-term rehabilitation.
- Setting the record straight - here are the facts about my connection to Russia: yurimilner.com/fact-sheet
- The Breakthrough Foundation is also giving $2.5 million to Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center to provide trauma care for victims and their families, as well as additional ICUs, operating rooms and underground emergency hospital.
- Russia’s attack on Ukraine is also an assault on reason, truth and enlightenment, and its nuclear rhetoric is now putting all of humanity at risk. As Stephen Hawking warned us, our civilization must gain control of its aggressive instincts in order to survive.
- Julia & I have been deeply affected by the suffering of refugees from Ukraine. Today the Breakthrough Prize Foundation pledges $100m to the #TechForRefugees initiative, joining @Airbnb.org @flexport.org & @Spotify to help people forced to flee their homes. techforrefugees.org
- This looks like more evidence for the plausibility of the RNA world hypothesis. Scientists in Canada have used an evolutionary process to produce an RNA-synthesizing enzyme that also uses RNA as a template. science.sciencemag.org/content/371/65…
- In the wake of Saturday’s brutal assault on Israeli civilians, the Breakthrough Foundation is donating $2.5 million to @Mdais to help provide equipment for mobile ICUs, first responders and life support ambulances.
- Machine learning is beginning to change not only the progress of scientific discovery, but perhaps the nature of science itself. nature.com/articles/s4159…
- AlphaFold is a major milestone in science – and it’s just the beginning. The potential of AI to fuel scientific discovery is bigger than we can imagine. Congratulations to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper @DeepMind for winning the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
00:00 - This could be an important finding. Some clusters of dark matter produce gravitational lensing effects up to 10 times stronger than current theories predict.
- Re-engineering the immune system to fight tumors is already saving the lives of patients with leukemia and other liquid cancers, and has great potential for treating more. Congratulations to Carl June and Michel Sadelain on winning the Breakthrough Prize for this remarkableCarl June and Michel Sadelain created CAR T immunotherapy, modifying the body's T cells to fight cancer. For this advance they are awarded 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. breakthroughprize.org/News/83 @MSKCancerCenter @Penn @PennMedicine
00:00 - Some positive news for human space travel. The brain re-organizes itself to some extent in microgravity, but there is no evidence of neurodegeneration. advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/e…
- Less than a decade after CRISPR, another gene-editing system has been identified in bacteria and re-engineered to work in human cells.
