Discovery AI Initiative and Departments of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Integrative Immunobiology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology

Team from Duke University School of Medicine and Duke NUS identify an enzyme that helps explain why muscles weaken in some cancer patients.

FLIP2: A comprehensive benchmark for protein fitness prediction with 7 datasets, 16 splits, and real-world engineering scenarios

Foundation models pre-trained on certain biological data modalities exhibit systematic representational biases when encountering out-of-distribution (OOD) data from new assays. The embedding drift lar...

The existence of phosphatases specialized in regulating the axon initial segment (AIS) was unclear. Here, the authors show that a PP2A-B55 subunit is selectively enriched at the AIS and contributes to...

The existence of phosphatases specialized in regulating the axon initial segment (AIS) was unclear. Here, the authors show that a PP2A-B55 subunit is selectively enriched at the AIS and contributes to...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position –AI/ML for Cell Biology

Job #AJO30509, 24903 Tenure - Track Assistant Professor Position - AI/ML for Biology, Cell Biology/Duke University Medical Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

Duke researchers may have found a path to treat a family of rare neurodegenerative disease called neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA).  People with NBIA have extra iron accumulation ...

Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

These sophisticated models will be used for human-development studies and drug testing.

Duke University School of Medicine researchers will launch a new national Center of Excellence for Multiscale Immune Systems Modeling (MISM), funded by a U54 grant from the National Institutes of Heal...

Researchers like Richard Huganir are closing in on a cure for SYNGAP1-related disorders. But in the face of federal funding cuts, can they finish what they started?

DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University School of Medicine researchers have developed two pioneering frameworks designed to evaluate the performance, safety, and reliability of large-language models in health ...

Dopamine (DA) plays a crucial role in a variety of brain functions through intricate interactions with other neuromodulators and intracellular signaling pathways. However, studying these complex netwo...

A letter from an alumnus