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Out today: A useful review on AI-designed protein binders. It covers the history of this work + has lots of good case studies, including how these tools are being used to make snake anti-venoms. The tables are particularly valuable.

RT @francesarnold: I think we will soon have AI tools to genetically encode--i.e., make #enzymes for--many useful chemical transformations.….

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RT @timothy_fuqua: Excited to release our study on the emergence of new promoters in random vs genomic DNA. Posting the thread on the other….

There is a yellow worm, called Paralvinella hessleri, that lives near hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean. Its body weight is about 1% arsenic by mass; a ridiculous concentration. But instead of killing the worm, the worm “neutralizes” it and turns it into a yellow pigment.

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RT @AsimovPress: We closed Issue 07 of @AsimovPress with a deep dive on sewers. Here are 7 fun things that we learned while editing it:. 1.….

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The bacterial flagellum looks like a simple tail, or whip. But it’s actually a rotating motor, and perhaps the most sophisticated protein complex nature has ever evolved. In e. coli, these motors are capable of astonishing speeds; about 15,000 rpm. (The world record, according

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RT @astormic: A major part of my PhD is out! 🎉. In this preprint, we introduce single-molecule flow cytometry (smFC), pushing detection sen….

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TIL there are cells that can live for thousands of years without dividing. They mostly live deep down in the Earth's crust, called the "deep subsurface," without sunlight or oxygen. About 90 percent of all microbial biomass is thought to be in this deep subsurface.

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Note that this paper is not the first time researchers have tried to engineer linear growth, either. But it's the first time I've seen this mechanism used. The paper :

A single E. coli cell, placed on a dish, will become 70 billion cells in just 12 hours. That’s exponential growth. But a new preprint shows that it's possible to engineer E. coli to grow linearly instead, where only one daughter cell continues dividing and the other stops.