Influenza's molecular theft caught in action—how the virus steals the cap of host RNA in order to replicate

The cold season is in full swing, throats are scratchy and noses are running. We feel ill and hope it is not the flu. The ...

A computer simulation is helping to prepare Australia for H5 bird flu

Currently, Australia is the only continent in the world still free from the highly contagious H5 bird flu. But that status ...

Computer run on human brain cells learned to play ‘Doom’

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

AI provides a way to stop viruses entering cells

U.S. scientists have discovered a hidden molecular “switch” that herpes viruses rely on to invade cells. By combining AI, ...
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200,000 Living Human Brain Cells Just Learned to Play Doom and This Is Just the Start of It

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...
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Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots." The post Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom ...
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AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life?

The Evo2 genomic language model can generate short genome sequences, but scientists say further advances are needed to write ...
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World’s Leading AIs Were Given Nuclear Codes and Pitted Each Other in a War Game Simulation. It Went Exactly As You Expected

Imagine handing the nuclear launch codes to the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence. You’d hope the machine would ...
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Cold sore virus hijacks human genome in 3D--and scientists found its weak spot

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion. Researchers discovered that it actively reshapes the 3D structure of the human ...