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Electronic Lab Notebooks Are Failing Researchers. Could AI Tools Help?
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (817+ words) Scientists surveyed said that electronic lab notebooks often fail in fundamental research tasks, including recording and recalling experimental data. A second generation of electronic lab notebooks aim to make logging experiments easier'but are they for all types of science? During…...
Parse Biosciences and Graph Therapeutics Partner to Build Large Functional Immune Perturbation Atlas
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (281+ words) After Graph's platform intelligently selects which conditions to profile across the enormously complex space of immune dysfunction, Parse's GigaLab, which uses the Evercode" technology, will generate massive single cell datasets with unprecedented speed and quality. "Graph's systematic testing of patient…...
AI Tools Unravel Thoughts, Actions, and Neuronal Makeup
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (871+ words) At the 2025 Society for Neuroscience meeting, scientists discussed how artificial intelligence can aid fundamental discoveries and have a clinical impact. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can aid in basic as well as translational discoveries in the field of neuroscience. The…...
q.e.d: An AI Tool for Smarter Manuscript Review
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (895+ words) A team of researchers developed q.e.d, an AI-powered system designed to deliver rigorous and constructive feedback on scientific manuscripts in minutes. Researchers created q.e.d to reimagine review and scientific publishing. This tool provides users with feedback on their manuscripts. For…...
A Neural Network Maps the Mouse Brain in Unprecedented Detail
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (453+ words) Using spatial transcriptomics and AI, researchers redefined the mouse brain's geography, uncovering hundreds of new subregions. Scientists harnessed the power of AI to reveal more than a thousand previously indistinguishable brain subregions. To build CellTransformer, Bosiljka Tasic, a neurobiologist at…...
Hidden Peptides May Revolutionize Antibiotic Discovery
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (514+ words) Microbiologist Cesar de la Fuente searches organisms" genomes, including those that are long gone, to find "encrypted peptides" as new antibiotic candidates. To accelerate the discovery of new antibiotics, microbiologist Cesar de la Fuente develops computational tools to look for…...
A Map of the Impossible: MICrONS Delivers AI and Neuroscience Advances
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1605+ words) Scientists characterized the largest sample of a neural circuit to date to improve artificial intelligence models and better understand the brain. Researchers combined functional and anatomical data from neurons with advanced machine learning to provide a complete wiring diagram of…...
Low-Complexity Domains of Proteins Work Honored with Lasker Award
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1213+ words) Steven McKnight and Dirk G'rlich received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the role of disordered proteins in cell biology. Researchers showed that regions of proteins that use only a few amino acids and don't…...
Lasker Award for Uncovering Spatial Organization in Bacterial Cells
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (796+ words) Lucy Shapiro received this year's Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life. Lucy Shapiro, a developmental biologist at Stanford University, won this year's Lasker Special Achievement Award for her…...
Machine Learning Enhances Hepatocyte and Organoid Counting
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (371+ words) Conventional automated platforms count uniform single cells accurately but struggle with irregularly shaped cell models, such as hepatocytes and organoids. Since the 1800s, researchers performed manual counts using a hemocytometer, a slide with an etched grid viewed under a light microscope....