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The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
...to understand biological sequence,” said the computer scientist Brian Hie, who heads the Laboratory of Evolutionary Design at Stanford University, based at the nonprofit Arc Institute. This was the impetus...
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. Far from...
How Will We Know We’re Not Alone?
...just part of the process of evolution of a planet? KALTENEGGER: That’s a great question, and that’s exactly how I started my career in this field, actually. I wanted to...
The Year in Biology
...molecular changes manifest in evolution and everyday biology. Biologists Meet the AI Revolution In 2024, hardly a week could go by without some big new paper related to Google...
What Can Birdsong Teach Us About Human Language?
...Yeah, so we call it parallel evolution or independent evolution. LEVIN: That just strikes me as huge. JARVIS: Yes, yes it does. LEVIN: I think that’s good for astrobiology, that...
All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA.
...resembling modern microbes remarkably quickly, he said. “That’s really exciting.” “Our work suggests that those early steps of evolution weren’t hard; they’re pretty easy,” said co-author Phil Donoghue, an evolutionary...
Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized
...lineages that lack mitochondria used to have them and then lost them sometime in evolutionary history.) And across the evolutionary tree, different eukaryotes have evolved or procured additional organelles that...
Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species?
...Yeah, well, Darwin was actually a very important figure in the development of a modern species concept because he proposed evolution, and specifically evolution by natural selection. He kind of...
How Can Math Help Beat Cancer?
...mentioned in the introduction evolution of cancer. And maybe some of our listeners are thinking evolution of primates, evolution of bacteria. It’s a little unfamiliar to speak about cancer as...