New genomic method to track disease outbreaks globally

Phylo-Plex, a new computational method, has been developed by Wellcome Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators to ...
Quanta Magazine

Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI

Since its molecular structure was deduced in the 1950s, DNA has been hailed by many biologists as the secret of life. They’ve read and studied the information stored in the DNA found in the cells of ...
Medical Xpress

Research reshapes the complexity of aging

A study highlighting key advances in the complexity of aging has been published in Science Advances. The work is titled "The longevity effects of reduced IGF-1 signaling depend on the stability of the ...
Morningstar

New study demonstrates up to 73% reduction in genome analysis errors using AI-trained models versus standard approaches

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Complete Genomics, a U.S.-based leader in genomic sequencing technologies, today announced results demonstrating that AI-trained variant calling models ...
IFLScience

"You Have To Iterate, You Have To Fail, You Have To Quickly Pick Yourself Up": Genome Loaded Onto Quantum Computer For First Time

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InfoWorld

The Terraform scaling problem: When infrastructure-as-code becomes infrastructure-as-complexity

Terraform scales beautifully — until it doesn't. Explore the real challenges engineering teams face with Terraform at scale and the AI-assisted solutions reshaping IaC management. Terraform promised ...
The New York Times

Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Genome

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely a mystery. By Carl Zimmer In 2024, two scientists from Google DeepMind ...
Forbes

Chromosome Rearrangements Add A New Layer Of Complexity To Genetic Analysis

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mccormick.northwestern.edu

The Geometric Code: Genome’s 3D Shape Functions as the Living Computer that Enabled Complex Life

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?
Medical Xpress

3D genome mapping tool reveals hidden complexity in DNA

Standard laboratory tests can fail to detect many disease-causing DNA changes. Now, a novel 3D chromosome mapping method can reliably reveal these hidden structural variants and lead to new ...
Phys.org

Island spider sheds half its genome, defying evolutionary expectations

Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis—a species endemic to the Canary Islands—has reduced the size of its genome by half during the process of colonization and adaptation to its ...