39C3: When Molecules Become Cryptographic Functions

Chemist Anne Lüscher showed at 39C3 how synthetic DNA can be used for data storage and tamper-proof authentication.
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New life forms found inside humans that defy classification

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.
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Translational reading frame determines the pathogenicity of C-terminal frameshift deletions in MeCP2: an alternative therapeutic approach

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...
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Essential proteins are stuck in an endless evolutionary arms race

Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...
eLife

A differentiable model for optimizing the genetic drivers of synaptogenesis

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...