The duration and value of a grant are not likely to alter the research strategies of recipients in the United States.Credit: DigitalVision/Getty Offering professors more money or time isn’t likely to dramatically change how they do their research, a survey of US-based academics has found. The survey, described in a preprint article posted on arXiv … Read more
Antibodies (pink) bind to influenza virus proteins (yellow) (artist’s conception).Credit: Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library Researchers have used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help them make completely new antibodies for the first time. The proof-of-principle work, reported this week in a preprint on bioRxiv1, raises the possibility of bringing AI-guided protein design to the therapeutic antibody … Read more
People with long COVID often struggle to get sufficient support in the workplace; researchers are no exception.Credit: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Shutterstock Abby Koppes got COVID-19 in March 2020, just as the world was waking up to the unprecedented scale on which the virus was spreading. Her symptoms weren’t bad at first. She spent the early lockdown … Read more
Comino, known for its liquid-cooled servers, has finally released its new flagship for testing. The Comino Grando Server has been designed to meet a broad spectrum of high-performance computing needs, ranging from data analytics to gaming. In a comprehensive test by StorageReview, the Grando Server, alongside a Grando Workstation variation, was put through a series … Read more
AI-run labs have arrived — such as this one in Suzhou, China.Credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty Scientists of all stripes are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) — from developing ‘self-driving’ laboratories, in which robots and algorithms work together to devise and conduct experiments, to replacing human participants in social-science experiments with bots1. Many downsides of AI systems have … Read more
The artificial-intelligence tool AlphaFold can design proteins to perform specific functions.Credit: Google DeepMind/EMBL-EBI (CC-BY-4.0) Could proteins designed by artificial intelligence (AI) ever be used as bioweapons? In the hope of heading off this possibility — as well as the prospect of burdensome government regulation — researchers today launched an initiative calling for the safe and … Read more