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Artificial intelligence, or AI, is an umbrella term for machine learning and deep learning. It is where a machine takes in information from its surroundings and, from that, makes the most optimal decision appropriate to the situation.

Unraveling the mystery of massive neural network models

Large language models like OpenAI's GPT-3 are massive neural networks that can generate human-like text, from poetry to programming code.

8 Feb 2023

Researchers use AI to identify genes that are critical to a cancer cell’s survival

Researchers at the University of Sussex are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to analyze different types of cancer cells to understand different gene dependencies, and to identify genes that are critical to a cell's survival.

6 Feb 2023

AI-based strategy helps discover high-affinity antibody drugs

Scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based strategy for discovering high-affinity antibody drugs.

31 Jan 2023

The Journal, Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences, Highlights the Contributions of Women in Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences

The journal, Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences (AILSCI), published by Elsevier, is set to release a special Themed Article Collection (TAC): Women in AI in the Life Sciences.

30 Jan 2023

AI develops first-ever functional artificial protein

Scientists have developed an AI system that can produce artificial enzymes from scratch. Even though several of these enzymes’ artificially generated amino acid sequences differed noticeably from those of any known natural protein, they nonetheless performed as well in laboratory testing as those found in nature.

27 Jan 2023

Gene editing made faster than ever before using AI

The first simple production of customizable proteins known as zinc fingers to treat diseases by turning genes on and off might be enabled with the help of an artificial intelligence (AI) program.

From New York University (NYU) 27 Jan 2023

Argonne scientists awarded DOE funding to study plant-microbe communication

Argonne scientists awarded funding for bioimaging project to study communication between plants and microbial symbionts.

10 Jan 2023

AI creates artificial DNA to control cell protein production

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed synthetic DNA that uses artificial intelligence to control the production of proteins in cells.

25 Nov 2022

New guidelines for genomic consent benefit patients and researchers

How can Canada maximize the benefits of human genomic sequencing to deepen knowledge of disease? For researchers and decision-makers in this expanding field, new guidance published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) establishes the essential components for obtaining patient consent.

16 Nov 2022

Researchers create genetic 'devices' to perform computations like artificial neural circuits

Bringing together concepts from electrical engineering and bioengineering tools, Technion and MIT scientists collaborated to produce cells engineered to compute sophisticated functions – "biocomputers" of sorts.

15 Nov 2022

Artificial intelligence facilitates optimal engineering of enzyme in laboratories

You can't expect a pharmaceutical scientist to switch labs to the facilities available in a television studio and expect the same research output.

From Osaka University 4 Nov 2022

Different cancers carry distinctive genetic signatures

After analyzing data from a public repository, CD4-T, CD8-T cells, and Treg cells, a team of researchers led by bioinformatics Mabel Vidal from the University of Concepcion and working with researchers from MELISA Institute and other academic institutions discovered a distinctive genetic signature among subsets of infiltrating T cells of various types of cancer.

4 Nov 2022

AI-based holographic microscope monitors microplanktons at the individual level

For the first time, scientists can now watch the lives of microplankton at the individual level utilizing holograms produced in digital microscopes and processed by artificial intelligence (AI).

3 Nov 2022

“Deep fake” protein created with AI to tackle water pollutants

If text-based artificial intelligence image generator like Craiyon or DALL-E has ever been used, it would lead to the knowledge of lifelike, yet entirely, synthetic visuals that AI tools produce.

21 Oct 2022

Applying machine learning to define significant immune cells

The method correctly categorizes macrophage states, which is crucial since these cells can alter their behavior and function as either pro- or anti-inflammatory agents during an immune response.

20 Oct 2022

Rutgers researchers seek to develop technology for protein editing

Rutgers researchers are seeking to develop the technology to modify or "edit" protein molecules in the body-;an advance that could spur major breakthroughs in human health.

From Rutgers University 26 Sep 2022

Researchers claim AI could produce protein molecules

Machine learning has completely changed protein structure prediction over the past two years. A comparable revolution in protein design is now described in three studies published in Science.

16 Sep 2022

Researchers develop microscopes for identifying biological activities in detail

Consider a PhD candidate with a fluorescence microscope and a live bacterial sample. How might these resources be used in the most effective way to get specific observations of bacterial division from the sample?

9 Sep 2022

Mount Sinai and Regeneron Genetics Center launch a large-scale genome sequencing project

Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have launched a new human genome sequencing research project called the Mount Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program with the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC), part of the industry-leading, New York-based biotechnology company Regeneron.

12 Aug 2022

AI tools forecast DNA’s regulatory region and 3D structure

According to two recent research published in Nature Genetics, recently created artificial intelligence (AI) tools effectively identified the function of DNA’s regulatory regions and three-dimensional (3D) structure based only on its raw sequence.

9 Aug 2022