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WEB3 days ago · 30 Sep 2024 By. Charles Piller. Company misled investors on possible Alzheimer’s drug, SEC charges. 27 Sep 2024 By. Cathleen O’Grady. Spanish university head accused of inflating citations to his own work. 26 Sep 2024 By. Kai Kupferschmidt. A study found Facebook’s algorithm didn’t promote political polarization.
‘New era in digital biology’: AI reveals structures of ... - AAAS
WEBJul 29, 2022 · DeepMind says more than 500,000 researchers have already used the database since its launch last year. Hassabis predicted a “new era in digital biology” in which drug developers could go from AI-predicted structures of proteins important to any medical condition to using AI to design small molecules that influence those …
Science’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year: AI brings protein …
WEBDec 16, 2021 · But after a final surge of support for ancient soil DNA and more than 2100 votes cast, AI-powered protein structure predictions— Science ’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year—kicked it in to capture the gold. This year’s breakthrough was itself predicted in 2020, when it appeared as a runner-up.
Quantum biology revisited | Science Advances
WEBApr 4, 2020 · Abstract. Photosynthesis is a highly optimized process from which valuable lessons can be learned about the operating principles in nature. Its primary steps involve energy transport operating near theoretical quantum limits in efficiency. Recently, extensive research was motivated by the hypothesis that nature used quantum coherences to …
Humans are still evolving—and we can watch it happen
WEBMay 17, 2016 · Now, thanks to the genomic revolution, researchers can actually track the population-level genetic shifts that mark evolution in action—and they're doing this in humans. Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting here last week show how our genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman …
Eleven science stories likely to make big news in 2023
WEB4 Jan 2023. 6:20 PM ET. By Science News Staff. A crowd boards a bus in Germany, where some states have eased masking rules for passengers on local public transit. JULIAN RETTIG/PICTURE ALLIANCE/DPA/AP IMAGES. Share: A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 379, Issue 6627. As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its fourth year as a …
‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
WEBJan 26, 2024 · The latest, reported this week in a preprint, is a new kind of viruslike entity that inhabits bacteria dwelling in the human mouth and gut. These “obelisks,” as they’re called by the Stanford University team that unearthed them, have genomes seemingly composed of loops of RNA and sequences belonging to them have been found around …
Synthetic biology, once hailed as a moneymaker, meets tough …
WEBAug 22, 2024 · A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 385, Issue 6712. It’s been a rough go lately for synthetic biology’s flagship companies, which genetically engineer microbes to produce everything from medicines to materials. Three highfliers—each of which once had multibillion-dollar market capitalizations—have fallen fast and hard.
Synthetic Biology Breakthrough: Your Questions Answered
WEBMay 21, 2010 · Experts respond to reader queries about the creation of artificial life. Yesterday, researchers led by J. Craig Venter reported that they had built a genome from scratch and used it to control a cell. We asked if you had any questions about the discovery—which raises important scientific and ethical issues—and you responded in …
mRNA vaccines may make unintended proteins, but there’s no
WEBDec 6, 2023 · Messenger RNA (blue) directs cells' ribosomes to make new proteins (red). Even after the billions of doses given during the pandemic, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines still hold surprises. A study out today reveals they may unexpectedly prompt cells to produce small amounts of unintended proteins. There is no evidence that these …