Category: Science
Powerful Protein-Folding Algorithm AlphaFold Foiled by Singletons
We now know that biological information involves far more than just an organism’s proteome.
Is Information the Future of Biology and Medicine?
University of Washington’s Georg Seelig wants to “design molecules” and “write genetic information.”
Why Epigenetics Contradicts Evolutionary Theory
Epigenetic mechanisms are ubiquitous in biology. Because of epigenetics, organisms with otherwise identical genes (e.g., twins) can be quite different.
Experts Debate: Was a Chatbot Sentient?
Lemoine was famously fired from Google earlier this year after he leaked a transcript of his conversation with Google’s advanced LaMDA chatbot program.
Revising the Linnaean System: Where to Locate Viruses? And the Problem with Mitochondria
The venue for a remarkable call for government censorship of science was a peer-reviewed biology journal.