Vermont high school snowboarding coach sues after he was fired for telling two students that trans women have a competitive advantage over women athletes due to their biology David Bloch founded snowboarding at Woodstock Union High School in Vermont The suit claims he joined a chat between two about a […]
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Then, having insisted he doesn’t yet know what the last book will be since it’s not done, he hurries on: It’s about “the end of life, the extension of life, metabolism, what happens as we near the end and how we can potentially extend the end. It’s about compassion and […]
The legacy of a renowned Isle of Man laboratory will “live on” in the world of marine biology, the scientists who worked there have said. Generations of academics studied at the Marine Biological Station in Port Erin, which closed in 2006. An exhibition by former staff and alumni of the […]
Men notoriously drink and smoke more than women — but that is not the reason they have a higher cancer risk. A major study suggests biological differences are the real reason behind the disparity between sexes. Understanding these differences could help to improve prevention and treatment, researchers say. The study […]
By Matthew Sparkes Predicting the structure of proteins is one of the grand challenges of biology DeepMind DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein so far catalogued by science, cracking one of the grand challenges of biology in just 18 months thanks to an artificial intelligence called AlphaFold. […]
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago, the artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepMind stunned many scientists with the release of predicted structures for some 350,000 proteins, part of the work recognized as Science’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year. Yesterday, DeepMind and its partners went much, much further. The […]
An artificial intelligence group says its program has successfully predicted the structure of nearly every protein known to science — effectively solving one of the “grand challenges” of biology and paving the way for new discoveries and technologies in fields as diverse as medicine, food security and climate science. DeepMind, […]
The relatively small universe of human genes could grow by up to one-third, if a concerted effort to search for new genes that encode short proteins is successful. Many known miniproteins have already been shown to play key roles in cellular metabolism and disease, so the international effort to catalog […]