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6 days ago · News. 4 Oct 2024 By. Hannah Richter. Imagining faces in tree trunks and your morning eggs? AI can see them, too. Computers can be trained to exhibit pareidolia, the phenomenon of recognizing faces in objects. News. 3 Oct 2024 By. Science News Staff.
‘New era in digital biology’: AI reveals structures of ... - AAAS
Jul 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 proteins—and ...
Quantum biology revisited | Science Advances
Apr 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 direct ...
Science’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year: AI brings protein …
Dec 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.
Humans are still evolving—and we can watch it happen
May 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 times the …
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Oct 16, 2024 · News at a glance: Florida researchers’ hurricane woes, antimicrobial resistance, and a Jupiter-bound probe. By. Science News Staff. ScienceInsider 16 Oct 2024. AI designer proteins could transform medicine and materials. By. Robert F. Service. ScienceInsider 16 Oct 2024. Debate erupts about how to deploy experimental Marburg drugs and ...
Ten science stories poised to make headlines in 2024
3 Jan 2024. 4:00 pm ET. By Science News Staff. In October 2023, boats on Puraquequara Lake in Brazil were stranded after drought lowered the water level. BRUNO KELLY/REUTERS. Share: A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 383, Issue 6678. Political upheaval and policy disputes could create uncertainties for scientists this year as a ...
mRNA vaccines may make unintended proteins, but there’s no
Dec 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 mistakes ...
Learning biology to understand longevity | Science - AAAS
Mar 21, 2024 · Ramakrishnan conveys the important roles of DNA replication and repair in healthy aging, the key role of stem cells in generating and maintaining a wide variety of tissues, and the myriad functions of mitochondria in converting fuels to energy and performing anabolic reactions and repair. He links these fundamental biology lessons to functions ...
A $100 genome? New DNA sequencers could be a ‘game changer’ …
15 Jun 2022. 1:15 PM ET. By Elizabeth Pennisi. The more than 3 billion letters in the human genome can now be sequenced for $100, several companies claim/ JUSUN/ISTOCK.COM. Share: A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6599. For DNA sequencing, this “is the year of the big shake-up,” says Michael Snyder, a systems ...