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Understanding Molecular Evolution

Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combina...

in Sculpting Evolution
Brian Wang · Erika Alden DeBenedictis +3 more
#robotics #environment #genetics +2 more
Project Research

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah · Francis Kendall
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Project Research

Deep Learning to Develop and Analyze Computational Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue Images for Digital Biopsies

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Project Research

Ocean Cultures

The Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. Concepts such as ...

in Open Ocean · Responsive Environments
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#developing countries #environment #genetics +2 more
Project Research

Robust Genome Editing with Broad Targeting CRISPR Enzymes

Programmable CRISPR enzymes are powerful and versatile tools for genome editing. They, however, require a specific protospacer adjacent m...

in Molecular Machines
Pranam Chatterjee · Noah Jakimo +1 more
#bioengineering #genetics #alumni +1 more
Project Research

Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal
#agriculture #bioengineering #crowdsourcing +9 more
Project Research

Studying the evolution of gene drive systems

How will gene drive systems evolve once released into the wild? Can they be reliably overwritten and blocked by immunizing reversal drive...

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Cody Gilleland +1 more
#bioengineering #genetics #biology
Project Research

Daisy Drives

Who should decide whether, when, and how to alter the environment? These are hard questions, especially when the decisions will impact pe...

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal
#bioengineering #genetics #synthetic biology +1 more
Project Research

Brainstorm: Anima Mundi

We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...

in Sculpting Evolution
Jeantine Lunshof
#art #genetics #synthetic biology
Project Research

Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes (SETG)

The widespread synthesis of common organic building blocks in space could have biased life beyond Earth towards chemical similarities to ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
#genetics #space #zero gravity
Project Research

Synthetic Genome Engineering

We are currently developing novel DNA editing technologies to broaden the scope of genome engineering. Our strategy is based on identifyi...

in Molecular Machines
Pranam Chatterjee · Noah Jakimo +1 more
#bioengineering #genetics #synthetic biology
Project Research

Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#communications #ecology #environment +4 more

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