And his company did fail. The public Human Genome Project mapped the human genome first to help it assemble the pieces. Venter tried to beat them by skipping the mapping part but it didn't work and he ended up relying on HGP's map to assemble his version of the genome
Mathurin Dorel
@mathsrish.bsky.social
Cancer systems biologist. I'm poking at cancer cells to model how they work in details. #perturbation #model #highthroughout #targetedtherapy ORCID: 0000-0002-1663-2075
It looks like Anthropic has included fake paper generation in their model alignment considerations and Claude tries to avoid doing it. Maybe we need to make more noise about this in general to get the others model developers onboard with this.
Cell origamis !
Our latest work on shape-programmable tissues is out in @science.org. By positioning topological defects in cellular nematics, we encode frustrated 2D force fields that relax into predictable 3D shapes. Collaboration with Marino Arroyo’s lab, led by @pauguillamat.bsky.social at @ibecbarcelona.eu.
2. The Slow Path: Go slow, verify everything, achieve frustration This is the “responsible adult” mode. The engineer tries to: - read every line - reconstruct intent - validate assumptions - check invariants - write tests the model should have written - rewrite, refactor, and fix all things (6)
I have a joke about poor data management, but it's not FAIR.
I have a joke about chemistry, but it stinks.
Wait, so ONT demonstrated that they solved protein nanopore sequencing, including three PTMs, on peptides with a few zeptomolar accuracy (1e-21 !, 6 molecules/mL) almost a year ago (finally catching up London calling 2025) and no-one made a big deal out of it ?? This is actually insane.
Very interesting read, making the important distinction between software dev and data analysis workflows. Data analysis is more iterative than software dev because you mostly don't know what the final state of the analysis should look. Iteration is key. Will definitely try the positron databot.
My First Look at Claude Code blog.stephenturner.us/p/claude-cod...
Did some of the perpetrator's name fail to be redacted as well or did the DOJ work with proper diligence for those ?
New: The DOJ left multiple unredacted nude images in the Epstein data dump. They only removed them after 404 Media reported the links. This is very disturbing: www.404media.co/doj-released...
EXCLUSIVE: A quiet revolution happened at Great Ormond Street Hospital last week. A girl with a rare fatal condition received a custom drug under a new MHRA protcol that is 1st step towards process approval, a shift that could one day save millions of lives. www.economist.com/science-and-...
Treatment of a teenager with an ultra-rare condition is a medical milestone
It will change regulators’ rule books
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good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
Killing in the name of… nothing
Anyone with non existing reference in their paper should get publicly named and shamed, and barked from any scientific role forever. The continuity of knowledge is too important, we have to be able to trace the source of scientific claims.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
Our job is to engage with, build upon, & further the academic literature! If you don’t take that responsibility seriously, feel free to find a better-paying job that you’ll be better at.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.
Anyone knows more about the new Russian cancer vaccine ? The most reliable info I could find in English is that it's 4 viruses. The new press releases also sound like the full treatment involves personalized mRNA and that it was tested in 48 patients with 100% success new.nmicr.ru/en/pacientam...
Cancer Vaccine - biotech solutions in the fight against cancer diseases
Oncolytic and personalized vaccines - clinical trials and patient enrollment for Phase I begins as early as late 2024, early 2025
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Yeah, LLM suck at data retrieval... (Tried to be lazy today)
Je m’arrête là dessus un instant, car je vois souvent cette étude citée pour dire qu’en gros le recours à la clim augmenterait systématiquement la température de la ville de 2 à 3°C et que c’est bien la preuve que c’est pas une solution. Ce qui est complètement partiel et trompeur.
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
Great model for both science and the journals viability. Everyone just need to convince philanthropists to fund their favorite journals and everybody wins.
The Royal Society is joining a growing wave of scientific publishers that are implementing the 'subscribe to open' model go.nature.com/3UPt7b3
If I could change one thing about #ScientificPublishing I'd ask funding bodies to stipulate all work they fund be published in non-profit journals. The knock-on effects would alleviate most of the strain on #AcademicSky. This isn't hard. It's big, but actually, it's pretty easy. 1/n
The strain on scientific publishing
Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...
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But if falls to less than 5% in winter, when Europe needs the most electricity. Notice on the left graph how wind, *gas* and *coal* take over. Europe needs to scale up nuclear and batteries big time, for the climate and for it's energy independence. (Hydro scale up is not possible sadly).
NEW | Solar power was the EU’s biggest power source in June 2025 ☀️ For the first time, solar ranked first among all power sources, producing 22.1% of the EU’s power ahead of nuclear at 21.8%. Coal power fell to a record low 6.1% in sixth place.
La #ScienceTailleXXelles revient en lle-de-France ! 🤩 Nos 21 nouvelles ambassadrices sont mécatronicienne, archéobotaniste, exobiologiste, ou encore informaticienne👩🔬 Chercheuses, doctorantes, ingénieures et techniciennes, toutes ont à cœur de montrer que la science se conjugue aussi au féminin ! ⤵️
Nice thing about having a thermal camera on your phone is that you can quantify your suffering during a heat wave. You can also check if your insulation measures are working and how much worse it could get which is nice I guess.
Poland knows where it's at!
On the final day of Poland’s EU Presidency, 🇵🇱 Deputy Minister for Science Andrzej Szeptycki @szeptycki.bsky.social argues that Europe’s global standing depends on stronger investment in research and innovation. 🧠 “Strategic sovereignty starts with research” Read the piece 👉 europa.eu/!6BkvPj
On the final day of Poland’s EU Presidency, 🇵🇱 Deputy Minister for Science Andrzej Szeptycki @szeptycki.bsky.social argues that Europe’s global standing depends on stronger investment in research and innovation. 🧠 “Strategic sovereignty starts with research” Read the piece 👉 europa.eu/!6BkvPj
Europe’s path to competitiveness: The strategic role of research and innovation
By Andrzej Szeptycki
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Good read. My fav: "If I could distill my scientific life into five words, they would read: “I regret to inform you”"... www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
A career in science requires a thick skin | EMBO reports
EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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