This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

Artificial intelligence has just redrawn the map of our genome’s control room, revealing hundreds of thousands of tiny DNA ...

A new generation of aging tests is moving out of specialist labs and into everyday life, promising to tell you how old your body really is, not just how many birthdays you have had. The latest claim ...

Credit: Getty Images Federal legislation introduced in early 2025 proposed allowing AI to prescribe medication. The Conversation — In the past decade, the success of artificial intelligence (AI) has ...

Scientists found that messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that carry genetic instructions to the far reaches of neurons in the brain tend to cluster together mostly because they are abundant, not because ...

Senior author Shannon Farris (left) and first author Renesa Tarannum of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC reported new findings in the Society for Neuroscience journal eNeuro that shed ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carlos Gershenson, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Most organisms on Earth have the same basic genetic code, but it comes with some flaws. Scientists sought to work out those errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s ...