USC Dornsife’s CReATiNG technique revolutionizes synthetic biology by facilitating the cost-effective construction of synthetic chromosomes, promising significant advancements in various scientific and medical fields. A groundbreaking new technique invented by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science may revolutionize the field of synthetic biology. Known as CReATiNG (Cloning Reprogramming and Assembling [...]

The project focused on Interlingual Respeaking (IRSP), a new practice where live subtitles in another language are created through the collaboration of human and speech recognition software. IRSP is a cognitively demanding, real-time process where a language professional simultaneously translates incoming spoken language whilst also adding punctuation and content labels orally, as well as [...]

COVID Moonshot’s groundbreaking research introduces new nonpeptidic inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2, showcasing global collaboration and open science in advancing coronavirus therapeutics. Although the group’s work has been freely available since its inception in March 2020, the COVID Moonshot Consortium is finally formally reporting its results. The COVID Moonshot – an open-science, crowdsourced, and patent-free drug discovery [...]

Summary: Researchers developed an AI-based method to track neurons in moving and deforming animals, a significant advancement in neuroscience research. This convolutional neural network (CNN) method overcomes the challenge of tracking brain activity in organisms like worms, whose bodies constantly change shape. By employing ‘targeted augmentation’, the AI significantly reduces the need for manual image [...]

How significantly do the ideas of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk shape today’s digital economy? A study by an economic sociologist at the University of Basel has analyzed speeches, book contributions and articles from Silicon Valley from Silicon Valley, demonstrating the emergence of a new spirit of digital capitalism. What justification is there for earning a [...]

Key Points LLMs, akin to GPS in travel, drive intellectual exploration with precision, efficiency, and engagement. GPS frames a physical journey, while LLMs foster intellectual growth and empowerment. LLMs guide knowledge acquisition, but unstructured creative thought remains essential. Let's go on a trip. One of the first steps is to punch in your destination [...]

The Candida auris fungus is spreading across the globe at an "alarming" speed. This species of fungus, which can cause fatal infections in risk groups and was first discovered only 10 years ago, can now be found all over the world. In nearly all cases, infections are contracted in hospitals, and the fungus has [...]

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are often depicted as sentient agents poised to overshadow the human mind. But AI lacks the crucial human ability of innovation, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have found. While children and adults alike can solve problems by finding novel uses for everyday objects, AI systems often lack the ability [...]

Think of them as the Energizer Bunnies of the heart, tiny natural batteries that keep this vital organ beating 100,000 times a day as it pumps 2,000 gallons of blood throughout the human body. But when those batteries—heart muscle cells called cardiomyocytes—short circuit and die, the damage can be devastating. The damage to the heart muscle is [...]

Human fingers and toes don't grow outward as you might expect. Instead, our dexterous digits are 'sculpted' within a larger foundational bud. Now the first human cell atlas of early limb development has at last revealed in exquisite detail exactly how that happens. Prior to this, our understanding of vertebrate limb development has been largely based [...]