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Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-22 Cached

Scientists have discovered the missing genes and enzyme that tobacco plants use to synthesize nicotine, solving a 200-year-old mystery. The finding could enable safer biotech production of medicines and vaccines using tobacco plants without nicotine contamination.

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The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-11 Cached

The article explains the biochemical mechanism of GLP-1 agonists, including the new drug retatrutide, and how they regulate appetite and energy metabolism by mimicking natural hormones.

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@OpenAI: GPT-Rosalind, our Life Sciences model series, is optimized for scientific workflows, with stronger performance in prote…

X AI KOLs · 2026-04-16 Cached

OpenAI releases GPT-Rosalind, a specialized life sciences model optimized for protein reasoning, chemical analysis, genomics, and scientific workflows.

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