Skin cancer impacts millions of Americans annually, but your chances of getting skin cancer and when it is diagnosed depend on much more than just sun exposure. A new study building off the NIH’s All ...

Silicon Valley giant NVIDIA announced a partnership with the Arc Institute and Stanford University to launch a new foundation model, Evo 2, that understands the genetic code for all domains of life.

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

In a new paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics researchers from the University of Vermont and Trinity College Dublin propose an innovative analogy between AI models and genetic encoding to ...

Our genetic code works a bit like DALL-E, apparently This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read ...