World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life
AI-designed bacteriophages were capable of infecting and killing host bacteria. Credit: Lee D. Simon/Science Photo Library Scientists have…
Supervised learning in DNA neural networks
McCulloch, W. S. & Pitts, W. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. Bull. Math.…
Revolutionary Cortisol Test Lets You “See” Stress With a Smartphone Camera
A groundbreaking biosensor powered by protein design and smartphone cameras could transform how we measure the body’s stress…
Cells as Circuits: The need for Synthetic Biology in the Arab World – News
A new wave of synthetic-biology research is turning living cells into programmable devices, opening the door to innovation…
how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome
In 1862, Victor Hugo reportedly wrote to his publisher to ask how his newly published novel Les Misérables…
Vitamin K2 breakthrough could supercharge bone and heart health
A new study has revealed how a widely used food bacterium manages its internal chemistry to survive and…
Brain cells beat AI in learning speed and efficiency
Researchers have demonstrated that brain cells learn faster and carry out complex networking more effectively than machine learning…
Will China’s new chromosome editing tool unlock new wave of genetic advances?
A group of Chinese scientists has overcome a challenge that stumped biologists for decades by developing a new…
Phosphoramidite Market Set to Surpass Valuation of US$ 2.44 Billion by 2033
AstuteAnalytica India Pvt. Ltd. Explosive growth in the oligonucleotide therapeutics pipeline is driving record demand within the phosphoramidite…
Scientists rewrite life’s code to create virus-resistant bacteria
In a landmark feat of genetic engineering, researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge…
In a first, artificial cell moves on its own using just chemistry
Researchers have created the simplest artificial cell ever—just a membrane, an enzyme, and a mission. In a breakthrough…
“The threat we’re talking about is unprecedented”
Illustration by Midjourney. On a molecular level, life as we know it has a surprising bias. The building…