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AI-Designed Phages
A new paper shows that a generative AI model can design viable bacteriophages.
Sep 17
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Niko McCarty
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What We Find in the Sewers
Our ancestors once spread their excess effluent on their fields; now we mine it for vital molecules.
Aug 25
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Calum Drysdale
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Pausing Insect Activity
Seasonal dormancy features in the life cycle of many insects. We can harness it for biological control, insect farming, and disease vector management at…
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The Nobel Duel
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China’s Clinical Trial Boom
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The Weight of a Cell
A single E. coli bacterium weighs about one picogram, 60 million times less than a grain of sand. But how do we know?
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Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine
While we’ve derived useful molecules from the leech, live leech therapy has been largely marginalized in the West. It is time we reevaluate why.
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The Flower Designer
A plant biologist’s quest to design and create 1,000 unique flowers, mostly in his spare time.
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The Sunlight Budget of Earth
Sunlight represents a seemingly endless source of largely untapped energy. Just how endless is it?
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How to Scale Proteomics
A look inside Parallel Squared Technology Institute, a focused research organization trying to make analyzing a proteome as easy as DNA sequencing.
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Spinning Bacteria
By spinning bacteria in circles, scientists figured out how phage viruses time their escape from an infected cell.
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A Visual Guide to Gene Delivery
There are at least 10,000 known monogenic diseases. When attempting to cure them, how do clinicians decide which gene-therapy delivery method is best?
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