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[jeen] / dʒin /


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Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, wrote that his company’s large language model Claude had found “a molecular machine that we suspect could represent a new gene editing mechanism.”

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

UniQure says it still sees a path to regulatory approval for the drug candidate, AMT-130, even as the experimental gene therapy for Huntington’s disease falls hort in a recent study.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

To recreate the extinct antimicrobial peptide, Sil began by comparing lactoferrin gene sequences from living species such as humans and cows.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

More than 50 percent of the tumors examined carried a mutation in this gene.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

Did every gene have a unique chromosomal “address”? Did genes overlap?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

However, the researchers emphasize that these genes are candidates identified through the analysis, and further research will be needed to establish exactly what roles they play.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

One likely reason is that early bat lineages exchanged genes with one another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Sil synthesized the predicted genes and used cells to produce the reconstructed ancient proteins.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Genetic analysis showed that several ferroptosis-related pathways were involved in AMB-1-mediated lifespan regulation, including the genes ftn-1, bli-3, and ads-1.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

If Dobzhansky had capriciously trimmed the wings of all the flies in one box, he would have affected their phenotypes—the shape of their wings—without ever touching their genes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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