Scientists uncover key driver of treatment-resistant cancer: Genome-scrambling enzyme points to new treatments

University of California San Diego researchers have discovered the enzyme responsible for chromothripsis, a process in which ...

A biochip built for the next pandemic can test dozens of viral antigens at once

In 2020, as scientists around the world were racing to understand COVID-19, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv and his team at the Weizmann ...

Detecting antibiotic resistance more reliably: AI tool reduces false positives

Researchers at University Medicine Oldenburg have developed an AI tool that delivers fewer false-positive results than ...
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A trio of AI methods tackles enzyme design

RFdiffusion2, RFdiffusion3, and Riff-Diff each solve different structural problems in computational enzyme design ...

Hamilton O. Smith, Who Made a Biotech Breakthrough, Is Dead at 94

A Nobel laureate, he identified an enzyme that cuts DNA, laying the groundwork for milestones in scientific research and ...