Brain organoid pioneers fear inflated claims about biocomputing could backfire Despite widespread skepticism, the National Science Foundation and DARPA have invested millions of dollars in organoid-based biocomputing

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Building Responsible AI in Africa | Darlington Akogo | TEDxAshesiUniversity YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again The results are astounding and a major advance, say surgeons involved in international research using the pioneering technology.

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A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

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Harnessing Intelligence from Brain Cells In Vitro - PubMed Harnessing intelligence from brain cells in vitro requires a multidisciplinary approach integrating wetware, hardware, and software. Wetware comprises the in vitro brain cells themselves, where differ...

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Hyperspectral reporters for long-distance and wide-area detection of gene expression in living bacteria - Nature Biotechnology Hyperspectral reporter genes allow imaging of ground bacteria from aerial vehicles

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Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society's most important questions. In this work, ...

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Polymer Coating for the Long-Term Storage of Immobilized DNA As healthcare systems worldwide demand early disease detection and personalized medicine, electrochemical biosensors stand out as a promising technology to meet these demands due to their sensitivity,...

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Understanding Quantum Information and Computation This is a course on the theory of quantum computing. It consists of 16 lessons, each with a video and written component, covering the basics of quantum information, quantum algorithms (including query...

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"Large language models (LLMs) and vision–language models (VLMs) have the potential to transform biological research by enabling autonomous experimentation"

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The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? Zheng and Meister write about the paradoxical slowness of human behavior. Although our senses gather data at 109 bits/s, our overall information throughput is only 10 bits/s. This stark contrast touch...

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"This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at ∼1⁢0^9 bits/s."

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Framework for bias evaluation in large language models in healthcare settings - npj Digital Medicine npj Digital Medicine - Framework for bias evaluation in large language models in healthcare settings

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A chimeric viral platform for directed evolution in mammalian cells - Nature Communications Directed evolution is a process of mutation and artificial selection to breed biomolecules with new or improved activity. Here the authors develop a directed evolution platform (PROTein Evolution Usin...

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Astronomers, Citizen Scientists Spot Gas Giant 400 Light-Years Away Astronomers spot a rare gas giant exoplanet, TOI-4465 b, with the help of citizen scientists. How did they manage to observe its elusive transit?

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Global decline of apex scavengers threatens human health | PNAS Vertebrate scavengers play a critical role in ecosystem functioning worldwide. Through the cascading effects of their ecological role, scavengers c...

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What does evolution make? Learning in living lineages and machines How does genomic information unfold, to give rise to self-constructing living organisms with problem-solving capacities at all levels of organization? We review recent progress that unifies work in de...

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

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Status update of NASAs assessment of the biological contamination threat of crewed mars surface missions As we prepare for a future first mission to Mars with a human crew, the United States, under the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, has an obligation to prot…

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Think Like a Person Before Responding: A Multi-Faceted Evaluation of Persona-Guided LLMs for Countering Hate Automated counter-narratives (CN) offer a promising strategy for mitigating online hate speech, yet concerns about their affective tone, accessibility, and ethical risks remain. We propose a framework...

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AgentPoison: Red-teaming LLM Agents via Poisoning Memory or Knowledge Bases LLM agents have demonstrated remarkable performance across various applications, primarily due to their advanced capabilities in reasoning, utilizing external knowledge and tools, calling APIs, and ex...

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STING deletion protects against amyloid β–induced Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis INTRODUCTION While immune dysfunction has been increasingly linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression, many major innate immune signaling molecules have yet to be explored in AD pathogenesis us...

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Randy Murch, Pioneering Biosecurity and Forensics Expert, Dies at 72 HS Today Randall “Randy” Murch, a respected national security advisor, former FBI agent and executive, and widely recognized expert in biosecurity and forensics, passed away on May 28, 2025, aged 72 due to hea...

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Inter-tool analysis of a NIST dataset for assessing baseline nucleic acid sequence screening Nucleic acid synthesis is a dual-use technology that can benefit fields such as biology, medicine, and information storage. However, synthetic nucleic acids could also potentially be used negligently ...

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