Susumu Tonegawa Dies at 86; Nobel Laureate Showed How Antibodies Fight Infection

The first Japanese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he went on to discover how memories are stored ...

Open-source AI predicts key peptide traits before costly lab testing

Penn Engineers have developed PeptiVerse, an AI-powered platform that predicts key chemical and biological properties of ...
The Santa Barbara Independent

Two UC Santa Barbara–Led Projects Selected for DOE’s Genesis Mission

Projects helmed by bioengineer Michelle O’Malley and biochemist Justin Wilson will use AI to speed scientific discovery.
Science Focus

'Mirror life is a very, very bad idea': The strange new organisms scientists are begging each other not to build – before it's too late

"Pretty much everyone agrees that creating so-called 'mirror-life' is a very, very bad idea." Those are the words of Prof ...
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Two UCSB-led Projects Selected for DOE’s Genesis Mission

Two research teams led by UC Santa Barbara faculty have been selected for Phase I support through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, a ...
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Do orchids like coffee grounds? The answer depends on one key detail

Coffee grounds aren't always bad for orchids, but whether they're helpful or harmful depends on the orchid and, more ...