Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
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For the first time, scientists have wielded CRISPR to track a mammal's development from a single egg into an embryo with millions of cells.
Nature From ACM News | August 13, 2018
For millions of years, brewer's yeast and its close relatives have packed their DNA into 16 distinct chromosomes.
Nature From ACM News | August 3, 2018
In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...Nature From ACM News | July 30, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018
In a paper Nature, Jiang et al.1 report the highest-magnification image ever obtained using a transmission electron microscope.
Nature From ACM News | July 20, 2018
Scientists have produced a 3D image of a fruit fly's brain that's so detailed, researchers can trace connections between neurons across the entire organ.
Nature From ACM News | July 19, 2018
Researchers have embraced CRISPR gene-editing as a method for altering genomes, but some are cautioning that unwanted DNA changes may slip by undetected.
Nature From ACM News | July 18, 2018
Scientists and politicians in South Africa are together celebrating the official opening of a gigantic telescope that is already transforming astronomy research...Nature From ACM News | July 16, 2018
After travelling for three-and-a-half years, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 this week makes its final approach to the asteroid Ryugu.
Nature From ACM News | June 27, 2018
One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork...Nature From ACM News | June 19, 2018
An enormous dust storm is blanketing much of Mars, blocking the sunlight that NASA's 15-year-old Opportunity rover needs to survive.
Nature From ACM News | June 13, 2018
Hundreds of Moon-sized worlds may orbit the Sun far beyond Neptune, sculpting the geometry of the outer Solar System.
Nature From ACM News | June 5, 2018
Physicists at the world's leading atom smasher are calling for help. In the next decade, they plan to produce up to 20 times more particle collisions in the Large...Nature From ACM News | May 8, 2018
Researchers in China have developed a filter that removes salt from water up to three times as fast as conventional filters. The membrane has a unique nanostructure...Nature From ACM News | May 4, 2018
Painstaking genomic analyses of thousands of individual cells in frogs and fish have yielded the most detailed roadmaps yet charting an embryo's journey from a...Nature From ACM News | May 1, 2018