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AI model cracks yeast DNA code to turbocharge protein drug output

MIT researchers have built an AI language model that learns the internal coding patterns of a yeast species widely used to ...

Gene Editing Has Struggled To Go Commercial. This Nobel Laureate Has A $1 Billion Plan To Fix That.

Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer ...
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New chemistry hints the first genetic code wasn’t built from the same 20 amino acids

The traditional explanation of the initial genetic code in life seems less established when ancient proteins seem to be ...
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A New Code Governing Gene Expression is Discovered

Cells are defined by the genes they express. In human cells, there are thousands of different protein coding genes, and the expression of those genes is carefully orchestrated and controlled by a ...
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Unraveling the roles of non-coding DNA explains childhood cancer's resistance to chemotherapy

Non-coding DNA variants contribute to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) chemotherapy resistance. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified specific DNA variants in the ...

All Life on Earth Shares an Ancestor – And Some of Our Genes Predate It

"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...
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Noncoding Gene Identified as Cause of Intellectual Disability Affecting Thousands

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and collaborators at the University of Bristol, KU Leuven, and the NIHR BioResource, have identified a neurodevelopmental disorder, caused ...