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Oswald Steward and colleagues won the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for discovering that neurons can produce proteins near synapses, fundamentally changing understanding of memory and brain plasticity.
GPT-5 demonstrated a 40% reduction in cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) costs through closed-loop experimentation with Ginkgo Bioworks' cloud laboratory, testing over 36,000 unique reaction compositions and achieving novel, robust formulations in just three rounds of optimization.