Hacker News with Generative AI: Molecular Biology

Biologists discover a new type of control over RNA splicing (phys.org)
MIT biologists have now discovered a new layer of regulation that helps to determine which sites on the messenger RNA molecule the spliceosome will target.
Biology, RNA, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Science
15 points by wglb 41 days ago | 3 comments
HORNET: RNA structure visualization method correlates sequence and 3D topology (phys.org)
National Cancer Institute researchers have developed a method called HORNET for characterizing 3D topological structures of large and flexible RNA molecules.
RNA, Molecular Biology, Science, Visualization, Cancer Research
42 points by bryanrasmussen 90 days ago | 8 comments
Molecular machines that loop chromosomes also twist DNA (phys.org)
Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Delft University of Technology and the IMP Vienna Biocenter have discovered a new property of the molecular motors that shape our chromosomes.
Genetics, Molecular Biology, DNA, Chromosomes, Scientific Research
53 points by wglb 110 days ago | 10 comments
Francis Crick's "Central Dogma" was misunderstood (asimov.press)
The Central Dogma is a linchpin for understanding how cells work, and yet it is one of the most widely misunderstood concepts in molecular biology.
Biology, Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics
124 points by ctoth 123 days ago | 66 comments
Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life (chaidiscovery.com)
We’re excited to release Chai-1, a new multi-modal foundation model for molecular structure prediction that performs at the state-of-the-art across a variety of tasks relevant to drug discovery. Chai-1 enables unified prediction of proteins, small molecules, DNA, RNA, covalent modifications, and more.
Artificial Intelligence, Drug Discovery, Molecular Biology, Chemistry
270 points by glowingvoices 204 days ago | 64 comments
Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of target and donor DNA (nature.com)
Genetics, Molecular Biology, CRISPR, Bioengineering, Scientific Research
10 points by breck 280 days ago | 1 comments
Molecular Interactions and the Behaviors of Biological Macromolecules (chemistry.gatech.edu)
Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Biology
40 points by egorpv 280 days ago | 1 comments
AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules (google)
Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, Protein Folding, Molecular Biology
1100 points by zerojames 330 days ago | 487 comments