IIn January 2017, I met Jiankui He, the now-infamous Chinese scientist who would go on to create the world’s first genome-edited babies. This occurred during a meeting in Berkeley, California hosted by Jennifer Doudna who, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on CRISPR genome-editing technology. In … Read more
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2023/07/02/2023.04.30.538439.full.pdf Natural language processing and computer vision are just examples of the fields where pre-trained generative models have been incredibly successful. In particular, a viable strategy for building foundation models is to combine various large-scale datasets with pre-trained transformers. The study investigates the feasibility of basic models for further research in cell biology and genetics … Read more
image: Joel D. Richter, PhD, and Sneha Shah, PhD visualization Moreover Credit: UMass Chan Medical School An antisense therapy developed by Joel D. Richter, PhD, Sneha Shah, PhD, and Jonathan K. Watts, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School and Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, MD, PhD, at RUSH University Medical Center, restores production of the FMRP protein in … Read more
