Lab-in-the-loop framework enables rapid evolution of complex multi-mutant proteins

The search space for protein engineering grows exponentially with complexity. A protein of just 100 amino acids has 20100 ...

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

Researchers from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore, Columbia and TogetherAI have developed a training technique that triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary models or infrastructure ...
Science News

Machine learning streamlines the complexities of making better proteins

The framework predicts how proteins will function with several interacting mutations and finds combinations that work well ...
Becker's Hospital Review

MUSC Hollings researchers create AI tool to ID patients at risk of transplant complications

MUSC Hollings researchers create AI tool that predicts chronic graft-versus-host disease risk after stem cell and bone marrow transplants.
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'Learn-to-Steer' method improves AI's ability to understand spatial instructions

Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University and from NVIDIA's AI research center in Israel ...
Nature

No place like home: anatomy and function of the stem cell niche

Stem cells reside within fixed anatomical compartments — called niches — which provide a specialized environment to regulate the rate of stem cell proliferation, determine the fate of stem cell ...
The New York Times

Climate and Environment

With cocoa prices high, Hershey’s has changed some of its candy recipes. The grandson of the man who invented the original Peanut Butter Cup said he was “embarrassed.” By Claire Brown The Trump ...