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Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

Ars Technica · 2026-06-06 Cached

A study of Ötzi the Iceman's microbiome reveals ancient strains of yeast and bacteria that are still alive, providing insights into his one-man ecosystem.

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TaxDistill: Improving Metagenomic Taxonomic Annotation via Distilled Genomic Foundation Models

arXiv cs.LG · 2026-05-29 Cached

TaxDistill proposes a knowledge distillation framework using a 500M parameter genomic foundation model (GenomeOcean) as a teacher to improve metagenomic taxonomic annotation by reducing label noise from similarity search tools, achieving significant F1 improvements on CAMI2 datasets.

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