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This Perspective in PLOS Biology stems from a Twitter discussion in Oct 2023 on whether beyond a given level of complexity, Biology can be understood mechanistically—or we'd better focus on ML-based identification of patterns & setting of probabilities journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… 😱

How was the flight risk assessed? Did the pigeon get a laywer? How much was the bail? So many questions.... theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

1/2 Being close to the end of the intensive SynBio Course Department of Biotechnology IIT Madras IIT Madras, it was due having a discussion session with the students on societal & ethical ramifications, elicited by a few film clips of the BIO·FICTION Festival Festival kindly provided by Markus Schmidt & BioFaction

2/2 It was very interesting to witness how perceptions on the pros & cons of SynBio varied enormously depending on the cultural background of those participating in the conversation. It'll be great that each society endows the field with a distinct flavor beyond Western-centrism!

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞'𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬!

"Prime number cicadas" are making headlines. With a 13 and 17 year breeding cycle it is the first time in 13x17=221 years for them to appear at the same time. So nature has a least figured out some prime numbers, in a quest to minimize resource competition.

Bizarre bacteria defy textbooks by writing new genes: RNA creates hairpin loops that create new repetitive DNA for Virus defence. nature.com/articles/d4158… Víctor de Lorenzo Ricard Solé Prof. Lee Cronin

This is how our #deCYPher research project is combining #artificiallntelligence and #syntheticbiology. Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=SaIY-J…

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If Europeans made street food the same way Indians do.

The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. 𝕏 did not.

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📣 Open Art-Science Call 📣 This combined open call invites applications for FOUR fully funded residencies across the two European Union Horizon projects deCYPher and Bioindustry 4.0. See: biofaction.com/open-call-hori…

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𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍 - 𝑨𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 #𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐛𝐢𝐨. 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: 23.10.2024 4 fully funded residencies under 2 EU Horizon projects: deCYPher and Bioindustry 4.0. bioartsociety.fi/projects/decyp…

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While we failed to electrocute a couple of slime molds, we managed to carry out an "Electrical characterization of the alleged bio-memristor Physarum polycephalum" :-) The research paper was published today in MRS Advances! link.springer.com/article/10.155…

Perception and reaction of undergraduate critical disability studies students to six short films depicting neuro-advancements --> doi.org/10.1007/s11569…

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Geschichte der Gains-of-Function (GoF) 1947: Militär startet Biowaffenforschung 1969: Nixon verbietet sie 1973: Biowaffen-Charta verbietet sie 2001: Patriot Act erlaubt Verstöße gegen Charta 2014: Obama lagert GoF nach Wuhan aus 2025: Trump verbietet GoF Das Video wurde gestern