Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack

They're not bad; they're just prompted that way. Sysdig threat hunters documented what they say is the first-ever documented ...

First synthetic protein motor moves along DNA in controlled, programmable steps

Researchers from UNSW Sydney have built the first artificial protein motor capable of taking controlled, directional steps ...
Nature

Beyond GWAS: Tackling the variant-to-function challenge

“Human genetics is at a pivotal time,” says Cecilia Lindgren, a human geneticist at the University of Oxford, UK. Although researchers have become adept at discovering disease-associated genetic ...
C&EN

Modular syntheses: Putting function first

And Schafmeister isn’t the only chemist turning to modular methods of synthesis to explore vast regions of chemical space. It ...
CNBC

5 Things to Know

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This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.