Ask a scientist to simulate a splash of water, a collapsing sand dune and a folding protein, and the honest answer is that those are three different software projects. Each phenomenon has its own governing equations, and each simulator is hand-built around them. A team from MIT and the University of British Columbia (UBC) now says one AI system can handle all three. According to MIT News, the system is called WorldParticle, and its authors describe their goal as a "GPT moment for simulation...
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11,000 years of isolation: Remote village has unusual Gut Bacteria.
A medical checkup of people living in remote villages deep in the Amazon rainforest in Venezuela has uncovered striking details about these villagers' microbiomes and the bacteria living on and in their bodies. The villagers appear to have the highest levels of bacterial diversity ever reported in a human group, the researchers found. Their microbiomes include bacteria that have genes that could make them resistant to treatment with antibiotics. Some of these genes could even make these bacteria...
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First Genetically Modified Blue Rose
Roses have been genetically modified to be blue.
The blue colored rose is often portrayed in literature and art as a symbol of love and prosperity but it does not exist in nature due to genetic limitations. They have been available at florists in recent years but have only artificially been created by using various dying techniques to stain the petals of naturally white roses.
A blue rose is a flower that presents blue-to-violet pigmentation instead of the more common red, white, or yellow...
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