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Living code

Artificial intelligence is usually discussed as a technology that writes, predicts, searches and reasons.
Researchers have discovered that a gene linked to congenital heart disease acts like an architect for the heart cell’s DNA.
From AI models to synthetic DNA screening and outbreak surveillance, there are several points where emerging biological risks ...
If you or someone you know has dog allergies, this news is sure to catch your attention: a pair of beagles were genetically edited to make them hypoallergenic pooches who wouldn’t trigger reactions ...
Scientists at a biotech company have used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that don't trigger allergies.
“The closer we look, the more clearly we can see that early biochemical evolution was a hybrid of enzymatic and metal catalysts,” says Joseph Moran from the University of Ottawa, Canada, an ...
In 1968, the American biochemist and geneticist Marshall Nirenberg and his colleagues won the Nobel Prize in physiology or ...
Every living cell, from the simplest bacterium to a human neuron, relies on the same basic machinery to read, interpret, and use its DNA. This molecular machinery is so fundamental that life as we ...