Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Use all the tools of the trade: Building a foundation for the next era of biosecurity

The coming era of biosecurity will demand a broader and more adaptive approach as AI, powerful biological engineering ...

Modified bacterial transport system imports artificial amino acids for efficient designer protein creation

Researchers from ETH Zurich have succeeded in introducing large quantities of unnatural amino acids into bacteria, enabling ...

Genomic maps untangle the complex roots of disease

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

Mitochondrial enzyme's atomic-level structure reveals how it processes RNA

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular snapshots of human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) in action, ...

Microsoft, Providence and UW create AI that unlocks tumor insights at a scale previously out of reach

Tech and cancer researchers are publicly releasing an AI tool that can perform sophisticated tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods.
eLife

Multiscale dynamical characterization of cortical brain states: from synchrony to asynchrony

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...