Hacker News with Generative AI: Toxicology

Hooded pitohui, one of the only toxic birds (australiangeographic.com.au)
This is one of the only known birds to be toxic. Its feathers contain one of the most potent toxins known to science – but why?
Animals, Science, Birds, Toxicology
9 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 3 comments
Agent Blue – Arsenic-Laced Rainbow [pdf] (11thrru.org)
Toxicology, History, Cold War, Espionage, Chemical Weapons
38 points by limit499karma 157 days ago | 15 comments
Why computational predictive toxicology is hard (owlposting.com)
There are now (claimed) foundation models for protein sequences, DNA sequences, RNA sequences, molecules, scRNA-seq, chromatin accessibility, pathology slides, medical images, electronic health records, and clinical free-text. It’s a dizzying rate of progress.
Toxicology, Machine Learning, Biomedicine
24 points by abhishaike 187 days ago | 13 comments
Vial with nerve agent that killed woman contained enough to kill thousands (abcnews.go.com)
The lead counsel for a public inquiry into the 2018 death of a British woman poisoned by a Soviet-developed nerve agent said Monday that there was enough poison in the vial she unwittingly opened to kill thousands of people
Crime, Toxicology, International Relations, Politics
7 points by alamortsubite 194 days ago | 7 comments
Vaping linked with higher risk of exposure to toxic metals, study finds (cnn.com)
Vaping, Health, Science, Toxicology
20 points by priyankanath 361 days ago | 0 comments