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Late blight is an old foe of humans. This disease catalysed the devastating Irish potato famine that began in 1845.
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For stretched public health budgets, high-tech treatments are hard to afford but some pre-emptive measures can prove good value.
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The most striking evidence that artificial intelligence can provide profound scientific breakthroughs came with the unveiling of a program called AlphaFold by Google DeepMind.
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In his January 20, 2024 TEDxBerkeley Talk, Dr. Benjamin Oakes delves into the profound potential of CRISPR technology and its ability to transform healthcare.
Dr. Oakes is co-founder and ...
Joe Betts-LaCroix didn’t have time to wait for architects, construction workers or really any of the normal things that go into building a new office, let alone a new ...
Dr. Alex Colville joins forces with Laura Deming to lead investments in longevity science moonshots, after deploying $100M fund last year while at Stanford
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Inceptive’s Jakob Uszkoreit, a pioneer of the technology behind ChatGPT, attracts Nvidia funding to design ‘biological software’.
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Scientists obsessed with aging are sketching a road map of how our bodies change as we grow old in the hopes that it will lead to treatments that could ...
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Scientists are engineering microbes to make healthier compounds. They hope they’ll help treat disease and save the planet.
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CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna's company Scribe Therapeutics inked a major deal with Prevail Therapeutics potentially worth $1.5 billion to create genetic medicines for neurological and neuromuscular diseases. Scribe CEO ...
