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Google's AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-09 | get The Gene An Intimate History Mukherjee → | tags: alphagenome, google, human genome

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This Cave in China Just Rewrote 120,000 Years of Denisovan History (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-09 | get Kindred Neanderthal Life Love Death and Art book → | tags: denisovan, china, ancient dna

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AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-09 | by Greg Uyeno | get The Gene An Intimate History Mukherjee book → | tags: alphagenome, google deepmind, dna variants

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DNA-editing ‘pencils’ probe early human development (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-09 | by Khodeer | get The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson book → | tags: base editing, genome editing, human embryos

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Denisovans from southwestern China and their subsistence strategies (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-09 | by Ruan | get Kindred Neanderthal Life Love Death and Art book → | tags: denisovans, ancient dna, baishiya karst cave

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DeepMind’s new genome ‘atlas’ charts effects of all nine billion human gene mutations (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-09 | by Callaway | get The Gene An Intimate History Mukherjee → | tags: deepmind, alphagenome, human genome

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Google DeepMind Publishes AI-Powered Predictions For Effect of All 9 Billion Mutations to Human DNA (slashdot.org)

2026-09-08 | get The Gene An Intimate History Mukherjee → | tags: google deepmind, alphagenome, human genome

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AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | by Pushmeet Kohli | get The Gene An Intimate History Mukherjee → | tags: alphagenome atlas, human genome, broad institute

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AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | by Alphagenome Atlas Team | get The Gene An Intimate History Mukherjee → | tags: alphagenome atlas, rare diseases, broad institute

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The Download: our 35 Innovators Under 35 this year (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-08 | by Thomas Macaulay | get Plugable USB digital microscope → | tags: innovators under 35, environmental dna, spiderwebs

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Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments (theverge.com)

2026-09-08 | by Robert Hart | get The Gene An Intimate History Mukherjee book → | tags: google deepmind, alphagenome atlas, human genome

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DeepMind’s new genome ‘atlas’ charts effects of all 9 billion human gene mutations (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-08 | by Callaway | get The Gene An Intimate History Mukherjee book → | tags: deepmind, alphagenome, human genome

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Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-04 | get Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts de Hamel book → | tags: sheeppox, medieval manuscripts, dna sequencing

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The ‘American Cheetah’ Wasn’t a Cheetah. New DNA Evidence Shows Just How Wrong Scientists Had It (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-04 | get prehistoric mammals book National Geographic → | tags: american cheetah, dna evidence, extinct predator

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Audio long read: Could mending damaged DNA prolong life? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-02 | by Quill | get Anker Soundcore Space One headphones → | tags: dna repair, nature podcast, ageing research

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Mutating every DNA letter of a genome shows surprising effects — and the limits of AI (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-01 | by Callaway | get The Gene An Intimate History Mukherjee → | tags: phage φx174, dna sequencing, artificial intelligence

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Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-27 | get Guittard Cocoa Rouge unsweetened cocoa powder → | tags: theobroma cacao, mississippian culture, etowah archaeological site

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Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-26 | get The Machinery of Life Goodsell book → | tags: genetic code, dna, synthetic biology

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Welcome to the spiderverse, a world measured through webs (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-25 | by Stephen Ornes | get Common Spiders of North America Bradley field guide → | tags: spiderwebs, dna analysis, curtin university

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Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Marta Wegorzewska | tags: washu medicine, dna packaging, early-life stress

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I should have loved biology (2020) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: biology, cell biology, genetics

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I should have loved biology (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: biology, dna, mitosis

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Google Goes Back to School With New AI Study Tools (cnet.com)

2026-08-20 | by Aaron Pruner | tags: google, gemini, ai study tools

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Scientists turn DNA into a memory device that uses 100x less power (sciencedaily.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: dna storage, perovskite semiconductors, advanced functional materials

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AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Elie Dolgin | tags: stanford university, ai-designed phages, bacteriophages

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AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA’s pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides — experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Etiido Uko | tags: blocks, model, organism

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Briefing Chat: Is DNA repair the secret to a long life? Whales and mole rats offer tantalizing hints (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-07 | by Bundell | tags: best, best experience, browser

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ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows (wired.com)

2026-08-06 | by Brian Barrett | tags: going, just, really

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An expanded codebook of human transcription factor DNA-binding specificity (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jolma | tags: chip, experiments, motif

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The Download: US robot restrictions and ICE’s DNA grab (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-04 | by Charlotte Jee | tags: us robot restrictions, federal trade commission, humanoid robots