News Sep 30, 2026 Anthropic's AI enzyme discovery faces originality questions amid pattern of disputed claims Anthropic announced that its AI model Claude discovered a novel CRISPR-like enzyme system in just 21 hours, a task that might have taken humans months. However, a computational biologist at the University of Copenhagen claims he identified the same proteins a year earlier, raising concerns that this may be part of a broader pattern of disputed AI research claims. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Community Jun 8, 2026 Decoding Disease: Locating the Tissues That Trigger Illness New genomic breakthrough reveals exactly where diseases strike. By decoding polygenic signals, scientists pinpoint the tissues and cell types driving illness for precision medicine. Edilawit Manaye 4 min read
News Sep 9, 2026 A searchable map of every one-letter change in human DNA Google DeepMind has precomputed predicted effects for all nine billion possible single-letter DNA changes and released a simple score so researchers can look them up. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 24, 2026 Claude finds a phage enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats Anthropic reports that language-model agents flagged a reverse transcriptase beside a DNA repeat array, a pattern later checked in a Bay Area laboratory. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 11, 2026 An AI model learns DNA by comparing genomes across species Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley built an efficient genomic language model that uses evolutionary comparisons to find DNA changes most likely to affect health and inherited traits. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Aug 26, 2026 A map of what genomic AI models learn from DNA A new interpretation method traces each prediction back to individual DNA bases, strips out laboratory artifacts, and points to unexpected rules of how the genome is folded. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Aug 7, 2026 Artificial intelligence designs working bacteriophages that kill bacteria A generative AI model creates complete viral genomes that function in the laboratory and may help develop new ways to treat antibiotic-resistant infections. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Oct 7, 2024 The discoverers of microRNA win the Nobel Prize in Medicine Ambros and Ruvkun discovered microRNA, tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Jun 11, 2026 Researchers explore resonance as a signal for the p53 protein The work investigates whether natural vibration frequencies can help p53 activate specific gene groups to support dna repair and limit cancer risk. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Jul 7, 2025 AlphaGenome: A new AI tool for understanding DNA A powerful AI model predicts how DNA changes affect gene regulation, aiding research into diseases and genome function. Giulio Prisco 2 min read