Designer DNA could revolutionise cures for diseases

Fixing gene defects with designer DNA is on the horizon after Google DeepMind launched a pioneering new AI tool.

DeepMind’s New AI Can Read a Million DNA Letters at Once—and Actually Understand Them

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Google Researchers Say Their New A.I. Tool AlphaGenome Can Help Decode the Human Genetic Instruction Book

Scientists at Google DeepMind —the company’s artificial intelligence research arm—say they’ve created an A.I. tool that can ...
Chemistry World

Google’s AlphaGenome deep learning model wants to do for DNA what AlphaFold did for proteins

Model predicts effect of mutations on sequences up to 1 million base pairs in length and is adept at tackling complex ...
Science Daily

Unraveling the roles of non-coding DNA explains childhood cancer's resistance to chemotherapy

Non-coding DNA variants contribute to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) chemotherapy resistance. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified specific DNA variants in the ...
BioTechniques

What can non-coding DNA tell us about Alzheimer’s disease?

Researchers have revealed that so-called ‘junk DNA’ contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. When people picture DNA, they often imagine a set of genes ...