Near-mystical musings from a scientist who believes we are on the brink of a revolution in understanding ourselves

A working catalogue of twelve open problems in biology — each a concrete, testable target for the field.

Researchers at Stanford Medicine have developed two new artificial intelligence models of the biological cell. The first, called universal cell embedding, paved the way for a second-generation model called TranscriptFormer, which has been trained on data from 112 million cells representing 12 species, ranging from single-celled yeast to humans.

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How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science, masking the human in the process by design. This Perspective invites us to consider the structure of the scientific paper, and the ne...

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Discover the Guggenheim Foundation, offering Fellowships to artists, scholars, writers, and scientists under the freest possible conditions.

The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind

Nine fully funded places. One condition. A patron has agreed to sponsor nine researchers for Cohort 01. NeuraVersa is a 14-day scientific research residency in Cusco, Peru. We combine AI with trad...

Help! - Data scientists, geneticists, evolutionary biologists: I need your input. Evolutionary processes can explain any biological outcome after it happens... and predict almost none. Could a £50,0...

Contemporary scientific research is characterized by increasing specialization, resulting in fragmented knowledge structures across disciplines. This article introduces the concept of the Molehill Eff...

An Australian study by researchers at Peter Mac has shown that the natural protection against breast cancer offered by childbearing is due to the influx of killer T cells to the breast.

We’re launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for people early in their careers who are passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.