Everything that is digital or has digital components in it, from smartphones to vast datacenters, is powered by semiconductors, also called chips. These tiny workhorses of the modern digital world ...are getting smaller and smaller and, at the same time, more and more powerful. Demand is soaring every year and some analysts already call them more strategically vital than oil.
In this interview, Vishva Dixit, MD, talks with Neil S. Greenspan, MD, PhD, senior editor of Pathogens and Immunity aboutwhat his career in science has revealed about biology in humans, but also what ...it has revealed about how to be successful in science. Dr. Dixit is a world-famous immunologist and biochemist who has made major contributions to the study of innate immunity in general and particularly to understanding inflammasome activation. He is vice president and senior fellow in physiological chemistry at Genentech.