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Genomics AI tool: Google’s DeepVariant released as open source

Frances Addison | 
A novel artificial intelligence tool that can accurately call out variants in sequencing data was released as open source on the ...
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Video: World’s tiniest tape recorder made with CRISPR and built from microbes

[H]ere’s a use for the bacteria we bet you’ve never considered: Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center have created the world’s ...
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So much data to store: Can DNA solve our problem?

Mar Parlange | 
Many pundits predict it’s just a matter of time till DNA pips magnetic tape as the ultimate way to store ...
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Nano-mapping DNA mutations with CRISPR could transform disease treatment

A team of scientists led by Virginia Commonwealth University physicist Jason Reed, Ph.D., have developed new nanomapping technology that could ...
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Can gene tweaking lower our cholesterol? Using CRISPR and nanotechnology in mice

Julie Steenhuysen | 
U.S. researchers have used nanotechnology plus the powerful CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to turn off a key cholesterol-related gene in ...
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Video: CRISPR gene editing in real time

Sarah Zhang | 
[Researcher Osamu] Nureki’s paper was published in Nature Communications Friday, and by early morning, the video that astonished the room in [a CRISPR ...
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Nanotechnology might help farmers fight climate change, pests and disease–and boost yields

Jan Ellen Spiegel | 
Researchers are exploring the impact of using nanoscale nutrients––including copper––on eggplants and other crops. While early results have shown substantial ...
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Rooting racism and sexism out of artificial intelligence

Anthony Cuthbertson | 
In 2016, Microsoft released a “playful” chatbot named Tay onto Twitter designed to show off the tech giant’s burgeoning artificial ...
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CRISPR 2.0 ‘base editing’ arrives and it’s an even more remarkable disease-fighting tool

Emilly Mullin | 
You’ve probably heard of the molecular scalpel CRISPR-Cas9, which can edit or delete whole genes. Now, scientists have developed a ...
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Google’s self-learning AI starts with blank slate and ‘creates knowledge itself’

Ian Sample | 
Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has unveiled the latest incarnation of its Go-playing program, AlphaGo – an AI so powerful that ...
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First alien life forms we encounter could well be robots

Bob Waugh | 
[T]he first aliens we encounter are likely to be machines, and they’ll be almost unimaginably old. Susan Schneider of the ...
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We’re a long way from Blade Runner-like organic androids

Fumiya Iida | 
[Editor's note: Fumiya Iida is a lecturer in mechatronics at the University of Cambridge.] The new Blade Runner sequel will return ...
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Has the evolution of artificial intelligence reached its limits?

James Somers | 
But the peculiar thing about deep learning is just how old its key ideas are. Hinton’s breakthrough paper...was published in ...
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Data storage may be coming to a molecule near you

Catherine Offord | 
[George Church] and two Harvard colleagues translated an HTML draft of a 50,000-word book on synthetic biology, coauthored by Church, ...
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Tubular cell ‘highways’ could change what we know about cell interactions

Monya Baker | 
[Researcher Yukiko Yamashita’s] group had been studying how fruit flies maintain their sperm supply and had engineered certain cells involved ...
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‘Information bottleneck’ theory could help crack human learning mysteries

Natalie Wolchover | 
Even as machines known as “deep neural networks” have learned to converse, drive cars, beat video games and Go champions, dream, paint pictures ...
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Finding and destroying tumors with microscopic ‘spasers’

[Research by] Vladimir Zharov of the University of Arkansas and Mark Stockman of Georgia State University, in Atlanta involves injecting ...
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Life 3.0: What happens when AI becomes ‘master of its own destiny’?

Max Tegmark | 
[Editor's note: Max Tegmark is a physicist at MIT. The following is part of an excerpt from his new book, Life 3.0: ...
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Fluoride flipping: Hidden RNA regulator could help create new antibiotics

So much of what happens inside cells to preserve health or cause disease is so small or time-sensitive that researchers ...
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Lesson for gene editing: How do we regulate a technology when we ‘can’t imagine’ the consequences of its use?

Mark Buchanan | 
Humanity has a method for trying to prevent new technologies from getting out of hand: explore the possible negative consequences, ...
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Cancer treatment uses genetically engineered biomaterial to deliver drugs and block resistance

[M]any chemotherapeutic agents […] cause serious side effects because they kill healthy cells in addition to cancer cells; some forms ...
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Genetics of pandemics: How can we prevent future flus?

The scientific textbook depiction of the flu virus is about to get a facelift, due to a University of Pittsburgh ...
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Innovative ‘cell guillotine’ could revolutionize wound healing

Eric Lief | 
For the last 100 years, slicing a single cell into two equal parts has proven to be a process that's tedious, ...
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Creating ‘leaks’ in blood vessels could aid in drug delivery

Mike Williams | 
The endothelial cells that line blood vessels are packed tightly to keep blood inside and flowing, but scientists have discovered ...
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Medication time-released ‘talking’ nanoparticles could target cancer

Leah Crane | 
Two nanoparticles have communicated with one another to perform a task for the first time, paving the way for more ...
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Controlling gene expression with light may lead to disease treatments

Sonia Fernandez | 
Researchers in UC Santa Barbara’s departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology have gotten a step ...
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Read ELP’s Nicholas Staropoli Reddit Science ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Epigenetics: Hype and Health

Nicholas Staropoli | 
Editor’s Note: On Friday, June 2nd from 1pm–3pm EDT, ELP director Nicholas Staropoli hosted a Reddit-science Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) about the hype surrounding ...
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