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‘New era in digital biology’: AI reveals structures of ... - AAAS
Jul 29, 2022 · 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 proteins—and therefore treat an illness.
Quantum biology revisited | Science Advances
Apr 4, 2020 · This body of work, a cornerstone for the field of quantum biology, rests on the interpretation of small-amplitude oscillations in two-dimensional electronic spectra of photosynthetic complexes. This Review discusses recent work reexamining these claims and demonstrates that interexciton coherences are too short lived to have any functional ...
‘Out of the blue’ discovery of RNAs that regulate genes ... - Science
Oct 7, 2024 · The Nobel is “very exciting news for those of us working in the microRNA field,” says Claudio Alonso, a developmental neurobiologist at the University of Sussex who began studying the gene regulators after hearing a talk by Ruvkun in the early 2000s.
‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
Jan 26, 2024 · As they collect and analyze massive amounts of genetic sequences from plants, animals, and microbes, biologists keep encountering surprises, including some that may challenge the very definition of life.
Eleven science stories likely to make big news in 2023
Jan 4, 2023 · BIOMEDICINE Big funders to get new leaders. Two of the world’s largest biomedical research sponsors—the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust—will likely get new directors this year.
Humans are still evolving—and we can watch it happen
May 17, 2016 · 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 times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation the effect of a gene that favors cigarette smoking has dwindled in some groups.
Synthetic biology, once hailed as a moneymaker, meets tough …
Aug 22, 2024 · “There has been a reckoning,” says Jay Keasling, a synthetic biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and co-founder of Amyris. Still, not all synbio companies are generating bad news, with some focused on pharmaceuticals and additives living up to the hype that has often surrounded the field.
mRNA vaccines may make unintended proteins, but there’s no
Dec 6, 2023 · News; Biology; mRNA vaccines may make unintended proteins, but there’s no evidence of harm Alterations ...
Nutrition researchers urge update to lab animal diets
Jun 17, 2021 · Mennatalla Ibrahim is a Diverse Voices in Science Journalism intern for the News section of Science. She is an undergraduate at the University of Maryland studying communication and community health. She is an undergraduate at the University of Maryland studying communication and community health.