Dec 29, 2024 · “I get joy imagining that we can sit down with elderly farmers who own a piece of land, and without instruction watch them type in their address to load their land, start to get the climate data, and then explore the possibilities for what might be possible for that piece of …

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Apr 29, 2024 · Let’s Talk ABO+. When tested in clinical trials, converted blood has raised safety concerns. Even when removing A or B antigens completely from donated blood, small hints from earlier studies found an immune mismatch between the transformed donor blood and the recipient. In other words, the engineered O blood sometimes still triggered an immune response.

Dec 12, 2024 · As well as showing off the chip’s error-correction prowess, the company’s researchers also demonstrated its speed. They carried out a computation in under five minutes that would take the world’s second fastest supercomputer, Frontier, 10 …

Dec 30, 2024 · Once bacteria or other living creatures can be entirely developed using synthetic DNA, synthetic proteins, and synthetic lipids, a living mirror bacteria could be constructed in the same way, wrote the authors. Although the technology remains at least a decade away, now is the time to consider risks.

Dec 9, 2024 · Thousands of new genes are hidden inside the “dark matter” of our genome. Previously thought to be noise left over from evolution, a new study found that some of these tiny DNA snippets can make miniproteins—potentially opening a new universe of treatments, from vaccines to immunotherapies for deadly brain cancers. The preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, is the latest from a global ...

Dec 6, 2024 · The team trained the AI on 40 years of historical weather data from a publicly available database up to 2018. Rather than asking for one prediction, they had GenCast spew out a number of forecasts, each one starting with a slightly different weather condition—a different “butterfly,” so to speak.

Nov 11, 2024 · “We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018.The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first announced.

Apr 22, 2024 · “I truly believe that the RNAi response is relevant to at least some viruses that infect mammals,” said Ding at the time. New-Age Vaccines. Many vaccines contain either a dead or a living but modified version of a virus to train the immune system.

Aug 2, 2024 · Llama 3.1 405B is the largest open-source AI model in history. It is what’s known as a large language model, capable of generating human language text in multiple languages. It can be downloaded online but because of its huge size, users will need powerful hardware to run it.