Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.
Optogenetics revolutionized neuroscience, but its origins come from an entirely brainless organism—an alga.
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OpenAI has published 722 maths manuscripts from an internal model it has not released. The papers fall into 372 families of results. The company announced the release on Tuesday and put them all in a public GitHub repository. It is the same model behin…
Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into an initiative to create a “virtual cell” that researchers can use to combat disease, as reported earlier by Reuters. The project is led by Biohub, a nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. […]
Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI models that predict how cells behave. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are joining with $300M between them, Biohub announced on …
Paris start-up Rivercell has raised a $25M seed round to build an AI model that predicts how human cells respond to drugs and genetic changes. HV led the round, with HCVC, Alven and Bpifrance Digital Venture taking part, the company said on Wednesday. …
A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain. Barcelona’s INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which leads the clinical work, announced the results on Wednesday, at the end of the EU-funded M…
Northern lights may return to 22 U.S. states and Canada overnight on Thursday, Oct. 8, into Friday, Oct. 9, with a CME likely to trigger G1-G2 geomagnetic storms.
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Cleveland Clinic’s AI for brain seizures, Fidji Simo’s plan to solve complex, chronic disease, and Vivek Ramaswamy’s estimated $12 million tax cut.