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A new artificial intelligence method means researchers can now link immune cells to their targets and for example uncouple which white blood cells recognize SARS-CoV-2. The developed tool has broad applications in understanding the function of immune system in infections, autoimmune disorders and cancer.

Researchers have published a paper describing a custom-built platform that aims to replicate the sensation of walking in VR, all while sitting motionlessly in a chair.

A biomimicking "spiking" neural network on a microchip has enabled researchers to lay the foundation for developing more efficient hardware-based artificial intelligence computing systems.

Scientists say they have uncovered a likely key genetic culprit in the development of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Someday, scientists believe, tiny DNA-based robots and other nanodevices will deliver medicine inside our bodies, detect the presence of deadly pathogens, and help manufacture increasingly smaller electronics. Researchers took a big step toward that future by developing a new tool that can design much more complex DNA robots and nanodevices than were ever possible before in a fraction of the time.

Microphones and cameras are installed everywhere these days: in smartphones, laptops, even in refrigerators and televisions. Many people are now used to their presence and no longer see them for what they actually are - omnipresent eyes and ears. Researchers have used a "alternative" webcam to critically question sensor technology that has become commonplace.

Researchers have fine-tuned the molecular assembly line that creates antibiotics via engineered biosynthesis. The work could allow for the improvement of existing antibiotics as well as the design of new drug candidates quickly and efficiently.

Understanding how cells act together to build tissues has been a fundamental problem in physics and biology. Researchers have now developed a computational framework that captures the various interactions between cells and connects them to embryonic tissue dynamics.

Powerful algorithms used by the likes of Netflix and Facebook can "predict" the biological language of cancer, Alzheimer's, and other neurodegenerative diseases.

More than a third of the Antarctic's ice shelf area could be at risk of collapsing into the sea if global temperatures reach 4°C above pre-industrial levels, new research has shown.