A peep into the secrets of life at its most fundamental level, from ancient DNA to futuristic gene editing.
In a 2024 commentary published in Science, Dr. Katarzyna P. Admala, a synthetic biologist and founder of Build-a-Cell initiative, raised a striking concern: should we go ahead and build mirror life? She was joined by a group of 37 eminent […]
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The story dates back to the monumental work of Swedish Geneticist Svante Pääbo, who extracted and sequenced the Neanderthal genome from archaeological bones. He established a new branch of science called paleogenomics, comparing ancient reference genomes to modern human DNA,
When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, it marked a pivotal point in our understanding of life. Now, decades later, a group of scientists in the UK have embarked on a bold mission: not just to read DNA,
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While developing this article for TheCellBot.com, I was incidentally listening to a speech by Burkina Faso’s President Ibrahim Traoré. Intrigued by his thought leadership and his active work to promote self-reliance amongst the African people, I came across his thought
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In preparing for this essay, I revisited Alan Turing’s paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) to reflect on AI’s evolving role in diagnostics. Artificial Intelligence (AI), alongside Machine Learning and Deep Learning, present a journey through time answering Turing’s question:
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