Scientists Discovered a Creature That Breaks a Fundamental Rule of Biology

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...
Quanta Magazine

How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Open-source software sheds light on cancer's hidden genetic networks

University of Navarra (Spain) researchers have developed RNACOREX, a new open-source software capable of identifying gene ...
GitHub

Plots and analysis for Wilkinson et al 2024 "Phage-triggered reverse transcription assembles a toxic repetitive gene from a non-coding RNA"

Most of the code is in Python and uses standard packages and packages from bioconda, particularly Biopython, Pysam, and logomaker. Raw sequencing data are available ...
Microsoft

‘Vibe coding’ and other ways AI is changing who can build apps and how

Doher Drizzle Pablo was drowning in travel receipts. After her company transferred her to Sweden from the Philippines last year, she’d started visiting clients in at least two countries a month, and ...
NPR

Scientists pull ancient RNA from a woolly mammoth's body

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...
WDAF-TV

Myeloid Therapeutics Rebrands as CREATE Medicines, Focused on Transforming Immunotherapy Through RNA-Based In Vivo Multi-Immune Programming

CREATE Medicines ("CREATE") broadens clinical programs and capabilities to expand therapeutic potential and improve patient outcomes Therapies tolerably program immune cells inside the human body, ...