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Computational biology

Research that uses simulation, statistics and software to study biological molecules and systems, often at scales laboratory experiments cannot reach.

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Domain Elastic Transform registers tissue gene maps from raw cell positions and expression values

Kanazawa and Sapienza researchers' DET algorithm scored highest of the methods tested on three measures across 90 hard mouse-brain alignment cases. It works on cells directly and needs no training data, so tissue-section comparisons can keep single-cell detail, though the test covered only mouse brain.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
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Hype gap+10
Incentives
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Confidence50
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Deleting two convenient assumptions tips a consensus model into an echo chamber

A PNAS paper takes a network model that never produced echo chambers, strips out the assumptions that agents share all their evidence and watch every neighbour, and gets a consensus decoupled from the world.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives48
Confidence50
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Anthropic's new biology lab and 950 Claude agents together found a new enzyme system in 21 hours

The company's new life sciences group says agents working from a single prompt flagged an enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats, and its scientists are still running experiments to find out what the system actually does.

Publishers:anthropic.com

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption20
Hype gap+22
Incentives85
Confidence52
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A year of atom-level DNA simulation puts mechanics alongside sequence

An international team simulated all 4,096 six-letter DNA words inside 190 fragments. The stronger framing, that mechanics filters which mutations survive, is still a hypothesis.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption20
Hype gap+30
Incentives65
Confidence50