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Jan 17, 2025
Intracerebroventricular B7-H3-targeting CAR T cells for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: a phase 1 trial
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: biotech/medical
In the final report of a phase 1 trial evaluating intracerebroventricular B7-H3-targeting CAR T cells in children and young adults with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, repeated intracranial infusions were feasible and well tolerated with a median overall survival of 19.8 months and 3 patients surviving over 40 months from diagnosis.
Jan 17, 2025
Scientists Discovered Astounding New Capabilities Hidden In Stacks of High-Tech Materials
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: entertainment, materials
Jan 17, 2025
An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, media & arts, robotics/AI
As the rate of humanity’s data creation increases exponentially with the rise of AI, scientists have been interested in DNA as a way to store digital information. After all, DNA is nature’s way of storing data. It encodes genetic information and determines the blueprint of every living thing on earth.
And DNA is at least 1,000 times more compact than solid-state hard drives. To demonstrate just how compact, researchers have previously encoded all of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, 52 pages of Mozart’s music, and an episode of the Netflix show “Biohackers” into tiny amounts of DNA.
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Jan 17, 2025
What Is Cell Senescence And Inflammaging? Matt Yousefzadeh, PhD
Posted by Mike Lustgarten in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
What is cell senescence and inflammaging?
Featuring Matt Yousefzadeh, PhD
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Jan 17, 2025
Large language models outperform experts in predicting neuroscience discoveries
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, robotics/AI
Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour.
Scientific research is increasingly challenging due to the immense growth in published literature. Integrating noisy and voluminous findings to predict outcomes often exceeds human capacity. This investigation was motivated by the growing role of artificial intelligence in tasks such as protein folding and drug discovery, raising the question of whether LLMs could similarly enhance fields like neuroscience.
Xiaoliang Luo and colleagues developed BrainBench, a benchmark designed to test whether LLMs could predict the results of neuroscience studies more accurately than human experts. BrainBench included 200 test cases based on neuroscience research abstracts. Each test case consisted of two versions of the same abstract: one was the original, and the other had a modified result that changed the study’s conclusion but kept the rest of the abstract coherent. Participants—both LLMs and human experts—were tasked with identifying which version was correct.
Jan 17, 2025
‘Not 7, but 8!’: Scientists uncover a hidden continent beneath icy Atlantic waters
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A hidden microcontinent, the Davis Strait, lies beneath the North Atlantic. Formed 33–61 million years ago, it reveals Earth’s tectonic secrets and reshapes geology.
Jan 17, 2025
Eve, AI Legal Platform, Raises $47 Million Series A Led By Andreessen Horowitz
Posted by Bruce Burke in categories: law, robotics/AI
Panqualityism.
Series a financing led by andreessen horowitz to drive ai-powered legal transformation.
Jan 17, 2025
Protons: made of quarks, but ruled by gluons
Posted by Paul Battista in category: particle physics
A proton is the only stable example of a particle composed of three quarks. But inside the proton, gluons, not quarks, dominate.
Jan 17, 2025
Schrödinger’s Cat breakthrough could usher in the ‘Holy Grail’ of quantum computing, making them error-proof
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics
Errors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment, they could have found a way to stop them.