Co-founder Bhargav Sosale is a software engineer and product designer who graduated from Nanyang Technological University, SingaporeSingapore and whose father, mother and sister are diabetes doctors. Co-founder Florian Savoy is an expert in computer vision with research experience at University of Illinois and a degree from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. India is planned to be the company’s first market and the diagnosis will cost $1. Medios is partnered with retinal camera companies including Remidio and Intuvision.
One of the goals of stem cell biologycell biology is to understand gene regulatory networks and cell-cell interactions for the purpose of engineering of morphogenesis. Tissue engineering and 3D cell culture techniques have been used to produce organoids and other forms of self-organizing tissues including synthetic mouse embryos. Manipulation of transcription factors, proteins the regulate genes can be used to induce morphogenesis.
Gigafund's largest investment has been SpaceX. They began investing in SpaceX since founding Gigafund in July 2017, and Luke NosekLuke Nosek has served on the board of SpaceX since 2008.
Casper is an implementation of proof of stake consensus algorithm in development for the Ethereum platform. Proof of stake is an alternative consensus method to the proof of work algorithm commonly used in many blockchain projects such as BitcoinBitcoin. In proof of stake, block creators are pseudorandomly chosen from a pool of validators based on the amount of coins they stake — this is sometimes referred to as virtual mining. Casper is the Ethereum foundation's proof of stake implementation. Among other design features, it is designed to solve the nothing-at-stake problem by requiring validators to offer a stake of their coins which can then be slashed under specific protocol conditions whereby the network determines malicious action by that validator.