{"id":180273,"date":"2024-01-11T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T17:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/paradigm-shift-evolution-is-not-as-random-as-we-thought"},"modified":"2024-01-11T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T17:22:24","slug":"paradigm-shift-evolution-is-not-as-random-as-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/paradigm-shift-evolution-is-not-as-random-as-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"Paradigm shift: Evolution is not as random as we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paradigm-shift-evolution-is-not-as-random-as-we-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big discovery on the patterns of evolution and how it\u2019ll change medicine and even potentially climate change and synthetic biology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The experts meticulously analyzed the pangenome \u2014 a complete set of genes within a species. By deploying a machine learning technique known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/topics\/random-forest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Random Forest<\/a>, and processing data from 2,500 complete genomes of a single bacterial species, the team embarked on a journey to unravel the mysteries of evolutionary predictability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe implications of this research are nothing short of revolutionary,\u201d said Professor McInerney, the lead author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy demonstrating that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/skull-evolution-why-some-mammals-have-long-faces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">evolution<\/a> is not as random as we once thought, we\u2019ve opened the door to an array of possibilities in synthetic biology, medicine, and environmental science.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big discovery on the patterns of evolution and how it\u2019ll change medicine and even potentially climate change and synthetic biology. The experts meticulously analyzed the pangenome \u2014 a complete set of genes within a species. By deploying a machine learning technique known as Random Forest, and processing data from 2,500 complete genomes of a single [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}