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Ancient Cousins, New AI Could Reveal Clues About Causes of Birth Defects

Editor's note: Each December, the journal Science identifies one scientific discovery as its "Breakthrough of the Year." For 2021, this recognition went to AlphaFold and RoseTTA-fold—artificial intelligence...

researchers working in the Marcotte lab

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Potential New Gene Editing Tools Uncovered

illustration of a DNA strand

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UT Austin Harnesses Power of Biology in Partnership with Army Research Laboratory

Early last year, Jimmy Gollihar was deep into building a unique facility on the Forty Acres, what he calls "the biological foundry" – a turbo-charged, biotech...

Jimmy Gollihar working with research samples

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Bacterial Warfare Provides New Antibiotic Target

illustration of Psuedomonas bacteria using a 'harpoon' to infect surrounding nearby bacteria

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Unlocking Secrets of Some of the World’s Smallest Viruses

Model of a microvirus