Anirban Mahapatra
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Scientifically Speaking: AI is already changing biology and medicine, but guardrails are necessary (opens the original)
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Scientists recently gave an artificial intelligence system an assignment to come up with the genetic instructions for a virus. They made DNA from the system’s suggestions and put it into bacteria. Some of the bacteria began producing new viruses, which went on to infect other cells. Researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute had chosen viruses that infect bacteria and cannot infect people. Of 285 designs they made and tested, 16 worked. Their study, first shared last September, was
Scientifically Speaking: The killer hiding in plain sight (opens the original)
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Researchers examined all 45 preserved flowering specimens of Saxifraga candelabrum held at the Kunming Institute of Botany, collected between 1888 and 2016. On 43 of them, insects are still stuck to the plant. Generations of botanists collected these specimens and preserved them. The insects were visible evidence of something unusual that no one had fully explained. A paper published this week in Nature Communications solves this mystery. The plant, which grows in nutrient-poor rock crevices in
Scientifically Speaking: AI changing biology but it won’t cure all diseases (opens the original)
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can predict protein structures, carry out complex analyses, and help scientists move from an idea to an experiment. The greatest opportunity for AI will be at the intersection of biology and healthcare. From hunting for new enzymes hidden in public databases to reading medical images for earlier diagnosis, AI is already revolutionizing these fields. Don’t believe me? In an Anthropic survey of nearly 52,000 Americans, almost half included curing cancer or Alzh
Scientifically Speaking: Do early winners become winning adults? (opens the original)
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Do children who perform best early in life later become adults who reach the highest levels? A paper in Science last December poses a question that more of us should ask. According to the paper, the answer, across several fields, is usually no. The paper, by Arne Güllich, Michael Barth, David Hambrick, and Brooke Macnamara, reviews evidence on the development of world-class performers. The authors pulled together 19 datasets covering 34,839 adult international top performers, including Nobel lau
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