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Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

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Contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP have shown remarkable performance in aligning images and text within a shared embedding space. However, they typically treat text as flat token ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

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There are few hard and fast rules in the study of life, but perhaps the closest we get is the central dogma of molecular biology: DNA is transcribed to RNA, which gets translated into proteins. The ...