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For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.
Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that he says will prove he’s not a murderer.
Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts what effects small changes in DNA will have on an array of ...
DeepMind’s new AlphaGenome AI tackles the ‘dark matter’ in our DNA Tool aims to solve the mystery of non-coding sequences — but is still in its infancy.
Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.
Google's DeepMind launches AlphaGenome, an artificial intelligence model that predicts gene expression from DNA sequence.
Justices side with Texas death row inmate seeking DNA test to avoid execution A 6-3 Supreme Court decision gives the inmate a potential path to have evidence tested to prove he was not responsible ...
SpaceX on Monday launched from California a Transporter-14 rideshare mission with several satellites and human DNA into low-Earth orbit.
Genetic testing company 23andMe never hit on a sustainable business model and went bankrupt. Now, it's being sold to a non-profit launched by the co-founder, delaying addressing data privacy concerns.