Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models

Do you need to quantify proteins in #cellfree gene expression systems but don't want to use a bulky fluorescent protein? Jessica Willi and Ashty Karim report the development and use of a fluorescent minihelix in ACS Synthetic Bio that can help pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Journal cover Nucleic Acids Res highlights our new method, RNAscape, for mapping base pairing and tertiary interactions in RNA structure: academic.oup.com/nar/article/52…. Same NAR issue features our new deep learning method to predict DNA shape: academic.oup.com/nar/article/52… USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences USC Research

chemistry is easier than biology nature.com/articles/s4225…

We were invited to write a review article on DNA/genomic language models (gLMs). We took this occasion to gather our thoughts on promising applications, and major considerations for developing and evaluating gLMs. Pls share with your colleagues: Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2407.11435

Must read from the Ben Schuler lab and @Hummerlab ! Fast dynamics of single-stranded nucleic acids. Congrats Mark!

Scott C Blanchard Congratulations to all the authors

Online Now: RNA interacts with topoisomerase I to adjust DNA topology dlvr.it/TCBkDV

Crazy and important discovery, that will unlock many limitations ! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers. Think of it as 𝕏 for research.

Have you ever wanted to design protein binders with ease? Today we present 𝑩𝒊𝒏𝒅𝑪𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒕, a user-friendly and open-source pipeline that allows to anyone to create protein binders de novo with high experimental success rates. Bruno Correia Sergey Ovchinnikov biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am excited to share our latest work on creating the first tunable Catch-Bond with #DNA! Our Fish-Hook architecture allowed precise control of adhesion nanomechanics, creating new possibilities for bioengineering and material science! 🧬🐟🪝🌟nature.com/articles/s4146… #biophysics

“I had always had this impression that to do computer science, you had to be a hacker and know everything about Linux. I realized that theoretical computer science was as fascinating as theoretical physics, and I said, ‘OK — this is what I want to do.’” quantamagazine.org/the-computer-s…

This really is a *special* issue highlighting many open questions at the intersection of physics and biology, well worth a read. Featuring an extended editorial from Rob Phillips - on how physical approaches have contributed to many fields of biology doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Predicting accurate ab initio DNA electron densities with equivariant neural networks by Alex J. Lee, Josh Rackers and William P. Bricker hubs.li/Q02YHY8c0 Biophysical Journal highlight — An official journal of Biophysical Society

The energy savings of fish that swim together. elifesciences.org/articles/96129…

The Harold D. Kim studies #DNA molecules far too small to be resolved with an optical microscope. Here, Tony Lemos uses atomic force #microscopy to image DNA minicircles as they bind to individual proteins!

New Pope has a bachelors in mathematics. Another day of STEM majors stealing jobs from humanities

🚨Preprint alert🚨 We show experimentally that DNA minicircles adopt a favorite “inside-out” orientation depending on their sequence. Big thanks to Tony Lemos (Tony Lemos) for leading the work! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

the line between simulation and reality is dissolving. this new research paper shows how to simulate millions of collisions with zero intersections. just pure physics.