Tiny marine animal reveals bacterial origin of animal defense mechanisms

Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...
Scientific American

How ‘effectively zero-knowledge’ proofs could transform cryptography

In mathematics, proofs can be written down and shared. In cryptography, when people are trying to avoid revealing their secrets, proofs are not always so simple—but a new result significantly closes ...

David Liu unlocks the power of gene editing to treat rare genetic diseases

Among them was David Liu, a biochemist at the Broad Institute and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Liu isn’t a ...
IEEE

GenAlg-SCL: Genetic Algorithm-Based SCL Polar Decoding Toward List Size Optimization

Abstract: Thanks to its outstanding performance, the CRC-aided successive cancellation list (CA-SCL) decoding algorithm has gained widespread acceptance for polar codes. However, its complexity is ...
Study Finds on MSN

A new AI can predict brain cancer survival and dementia risk from MRI scans

In A Nutshell Harvard researchers developed BrainIAC, a single AI model that can be adapted to analyze brain scans for conditions from Alzheimer’s to cancer, eliminating the need to build separate ...
IEEE

Genetic Algorithm-Based Search Space Exploration to Generate Best Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract: Despite the wide variety of applications and use cases that can be solved with the help of machine learning algorithms, researchers have yet to develop a general artificial intelligence ...
Phys.org

Researchers expand human genome map to 2.37 million regulatory DNA elements

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the known number of potential regulatory elements in the genome to 2.37 million, ...