Speaking on the prospect of artificial general intelligence, LeCun suggested it’s a misnomer, because human intelligence, in his view, is not general. He prefers the term “human-level intelligence,” ...

Many peptides are produced either by compounding pharmacies in the U.S. or by an ever-growing number of factories in China. The most serious users tend to get peptides from the latter for both a wider ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Assessing the toxicity of food contaminants—including carcinogenic potential—is a major challenge in evaluating the risks ...

Vaults are mysterious cellular structures that can be genetically engineered to store information about a cell’s history.

An enduring challenge for the study of human cancer is just how complex it is: how many different ways there are for cancers ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely ...

New research by UCLA Health and UC San Francisco has uncovered why certain brain cells are more resilient than others to the buildup of a toxic protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease and ...

Using single-cell epigenomic profiling of immune cells from 110 individuals, researchers show that genetic variation and ...

Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...

Experts reconstructed the genome of Treponema pallidum from 5,500-year-old human remains in Colombia, revealing an unknown ...

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.