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JANUARY 7, 2024

I’m a (50%) professor of mathematics and (50%) professor of molecular & cell biology at UC Berkeley. There have been plenty of days when I have spent the working hours with biologists and…

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JULY 10, 2023

The increasing integration between biological and digital interfaces has led to heightened interest in utilizing biological materials to store digital data, with the most promising one involving the storage of data within defined sequences of DNA that are created by de novo DNA synthesis.

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JULY 6, 2023

More green spaces were associated with slower biological aging, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. People who lived near more green spaces were biologically 2.5 years younger, on average, than those who live near less greenness.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Jensen Huang: "For the very first time in human history, biology has the opportunity to be engineering, not science."

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JULY 16, 2023

Yet the most significant long-term opportunity for LLMs will entail an entirely different type of language: the language of biology. Large language models like GPT-4 have taken the world by storm thanks to their astonishing command of natural language. One striking theme has emerged from the long …

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JULY 7, 2023

In a groundbreaking study, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an automated machine learning system called BioAutoMATED that can generate AI models for biology research. Led by Jim Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science, the team …

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JULY 24, 2023

This merging of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology opens a new realm of continual machine learning. • • A group of researchers have already grown brain cells on silicon chips and then taught them to perform tasks. A $600,000 AUD Australian national intelligence grant continues to the research …

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Towards AI

JULY 19, 2023

You’ve found the first entry in my From Bits to Biology series, where I explore the connections between general algorithms you may find in a computer science class and computational biology/bioinformatics to make them more intuitive and accessible to those without formal biology training. How do we align sequences?

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JUNE 2, 2023

Nature Machine Intelligence - An in vitro biological system of cultured brain cells has learned to play Pong. This feat opens up an avenue towards the convergence of biological and machine.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The use of radiation can help in the regulation or management of pests — known as pest control — effectively preventing insect-related risks to human and animal health, the ecosystems and food security (including crop and livestock production).

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APRIL 27, 2023

Be sure to check out his talk, “ Is Machine Learning Necessary to Solve Problems in Biology ,” there! The combination of molecular cell biology, nonlinear dynamics, and machine learning provides a promising approach to understanding and predicting biological systems’ behavior.

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MARCH 23, 2023

Two scientific worlds are colliding: biological science and data science. Converging advances in these worlds are decreasing the cost and time it …

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MARCH 10, 2023

A review paper by scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology summarized recent efforts and future potentials in the use of in vitro biological …

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Analytics Vidhya

MAY 8, 2024

With a unique background in computer science and a passion for biology, he has carved a path that merges these fields seamlessly. In an era where data science and machine learning are reshaping our world, Joshua Starmer stands out as a leading educator and innovator.

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NYU Center for Data Science

MARCH 1, 2024

The lab’s mission is underpinned by a belief that the keys to the next leap in AI’s evolution lie within our own biology. “In Savin , a CDS Assistant Professor in Neural Science and Data Science, leads her team with a clear vision: to bridge the vast expanse between the computational principles of the brain and the burgeoning field of AI.

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Hacker News

MAY 5, 2024

In a new scientific paper funded by an Ames Space Biology grant, Principal Investigator Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory strains

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MARCH 3, 2024

Introducing Evo, a biological foundation model that generalizes across the fundamental languages of biology: DNA, RNA and proteins. Evo is capable of both prediction tasks, and generative design from molecular to whole genome scale.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Based on a validated measure of biological age predictive of morbidity and mortality, 3 FMD cycles were associated with a decrease of 2.5 years in median biological age, independent of weight loss. Nearly identical findings resulted from& a second clinical& study (NCT04150159).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book.

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JULY 28, 2022

Open sourcing over 200 million protein structures to help researchers solve countless problems Big data in biology leads to discoveries that can benefit humankind.

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 2, 2024

Introduction Voronoi diagrams, named after the Russian mathematician Georgy Voronoy, are fascinating geometric structures with applications in various fields such as computer science, geography, biology, and urban planning.

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MAY 9, 2024

Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes of protein, DNA, RNA and other molecules, better capturing cells’ biological landscapes.

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KDnuggets

OCTOBER 20, 2023

From the biological neuron to LLMs: How AI became smart.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Is DNA all you need?

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APRIL 4, 2022

Check out the collection of the best data repositories on agriculture, audio, biology, climate, computer vision, economics, education, energy, finance, and government.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding and controlling the quantum effects in biology has the potential to modulate biological functions. Quantum biological tunnelling for electron transfer is involved in controlling essential functions for life such as cellular respiration and homoeostasis.

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Towards AI

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Predicting the complex three-dimensional structures of proteins with high accuracy is no longer a dream, thanks to deep learning networks like AlphaFold2 and others that followed it. But proteins don’t work alone. They interact with other proteins, with DNA, RNA, and small molecules and ions of all kinds — all crucial to their biological function.

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Mlearning.ai

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Data Science Project — Predictive Modeling on Biological Data Part III — A step-by-step guide on how to design a ML modeling pipeline with scikit-learn Functions. Photo by Unsplash Earlier we saw how to collect the data and how to perform exploratory data analysis. You can refer part-I and part-II of this article. Now comes the exciting part ….

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Hacker News

MARCH 20, 2024

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think.

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Analytics Vidhya

MAY 28, 2023

“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.”

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MARCH 23, 2023

A new study in the journal Nature Medicine analyzes longitudinal and cross-sectional changes in blood analytes associated with variations in body mass …

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AUGUST 19, 2023

"Having remained electrically silent for over a century of brain recordings, astrocytes are one of the most abundant, yet less explored, cells in the brain."

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JUNE 16, 2021

ArticleVideo Book This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Table of Contents: What is CNN, Why is it important Biological. The post All you need to know about Convolutional Neural Networks! appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured cells. When their signal fails, the biological clock starts winding down.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Researchers hypothesize that a powerful type of AI model known as a transformer could be implemented in the brain through networks of neuron and astrocyte cells. The work could offer insights into how the brain works and help scientists understand why transformers are so effective at machine-learning tasks.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

AI is merging with biology, and the result, digital biology, will have 'tremendous repercussions in human health,' says Koller. Generative artificial …

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