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Disease diagnostics using machine learning of B cell and T cell receptor sequences | Science
Clinical diagnosis typically incorporates physical examination, patient history, various laboratory tests, and imaging studies but makes limited use of the human immune system’s own record of antigen exposures encoded by receptors on B cells and T cells. ...
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A neural basis for prosocial behavior toward unresponsive individuals | Science
Humans often take actions to assist others experiencing unresponsiveness, such as transient loss of consciousness. How other animals react to unresponsive conspecifics—and the neural mechanisms driving such behaviors—remain largely unexplored. In this ...
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Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science
Evolvability—the capacity to generate adaptive variation—is a trait that can itself evolve through natural selection. However, the idea that mutation can become biased toward adaptive outcomes remains controversial. In this work, we report the evolution ...
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Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents | Science
Whereas humans exhibit emergency responses to assist unconscious individuals, how nonhuman animals react to unresponsive conspecifics is less well understood. We report that mice exhibit stereotypic behaviors toward unconscious or dead social partners, ...
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What’s tinyML? The Global South’s alternative to power-hungry, pricey AI
Stamp-size devices running machine learning models are tackling agricultural, health, and conservation problems in resource-poor regions