DNA, Genomics, Bioinformatics 🧬

The Year in Biology | Quanta Magazine

Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA.

Threads

A “Word Processor” for Genes – Scientists Unveil Fundamentally New Mechanism for Biological Programming

Arc Institute scientists have discovered the bridge recombinase mechanism, a revolutionary tool that enables fully programmable DNA rearrangements. Their finding, detailed in a recent Nature publication, is the first DNA recombinase that uses a non-coding RNA for sequence-specific selection of ta

Cerebras Systems Unveils World’s Fastest AI Chip with Whopping 4 Trillion Transistors - Cerebras

Third Generation 5nm Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-3) Powers Industry’s Most Scalable AI Supercomputers, Up To 256 exaFLOPs via 2048 Nodes

Inside the Quest to Reprogram Immune Cells Into An Anti-Aging Remedy

In a new study, scientists found that T cells can be tweaked to fight damaged cells, called senescent cells, associated with aging.

Daily briefing: Disease-resistant genetically modified banana is first to be approved to eat

The variety is resistant to a devastating banana disease for which there is currently no treatment or cure. Plus, RNA-editing therapies pick up steam and just 5 women have won a top maths prize in the past 90 years.

1 Million Unannotated Exons Discovered in the Human Genome

Over two decades after the first human genome was sequenced, a team of researchers has discovered ~1 million new exons in the human genome.

Controversial Chinese scientist He Jiankui proposes new gene editing research | CNN

He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who sparked global outrage in 2018 when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited children, has put forward a new proposal for modifying human embryos that he claims could help aid the “aging population.”

MITx: Genetics: The Fundamentals | edX

How do we know what we know about heredity? Enhance your scientific thinking and experimental design skills with this in-depth adventure through genetics.

Gene-Modified Babies: Essentials of the Bioethics Subjecting 'Designer-Babies' for Future Parents | HackerNoon

The ever-moving technological advancement has led us to the era where maintaining a downed Facebook server has become more important compared to the preservation of our own species, which is now considered as 'optional'.