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A study published in Nature provides direct evidence that inherited genetic makeup influences cancer risk from environmental exposures like smoking and UV rays, explaining why some people develop cancer and others do not. The research in mice shows that genetic background alters how tumours evolve, with implications for personalized cancer prevention and treatment.
CALM is a framework for learning interpretable associations between brain regions and genetic pathways from completely unpaired datasets, enabling biomarker discovery for neuropsychiatric disorders like autism without requiring paired multimodal data.
A new Nature paper from the Pakistan Genomic Resource (PGR) analyzes 173,303 Pakistanis from consanguineous communities, identifying human knockouts for nearly one-third of protein-coding genes, overturning biological assumptions like PRDM9 essentiality for fertility.
Bean plants use an immune receptor to detect caterpillar saliva and release volatile chemicals that attract parasitic wasps, a defense mechanism now understood at the molecular level.
A discussion questioning Yann LeCun's comparison between human learning and AI, arguing that humans inherit millions of years of evolutionary pretraining hardcoded into genetics, giving babies an advanced foundation for spatial reasoning that LLMs lack.
A report details Russian President Vladimir Putin's $26 billion national effort to advance antiaging research, encompassing technologies like organ printing, cryotherapy, and genetics.
An article critiques a recent Science paper that redefines heritability to estimate human lifespan heritability at ~50% in a hypothetical world without accidental or infectious deaths, arguing the paper's conclusions are misleading.
OpenAI introduces the o1 model series, designed to reason through complex tasks before responding, with applications in genetics, science, coding, and math. The announcement highlights use cases in decoding genetics with researcher Catherine Brownstein.