Genetics Articles

In 2014, MiRXES was founded as a 3-person spin-off from Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR). Five years later, their flagship product GASTROClear was approved for early detection of gastric cancer (screening) – now widely used in...

George Church and Ramez Naam on the limitations of evolution, the power of matchmaking, and why we should send single-cell computers into deep space. George Church is a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, but that title undersells him. He is very much an engineer,...

Nature | Nov 2021 Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, say scientists. An artificial intelligence (AI) network developed by Google AI offshoot DeepMind has made a gargantuan leap in solving one of...

The New York Times | Feb 2015 More than 200 scientists working on an ambitious federal project have begun to understand the complicated system of switches that regulates genes, turning some on and others off, making some glow brightly while others dim. They hope these...