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The ADePT framework for assessing autonomous laboratory robotics - Communications Chemistry
1+ hour, 3+ min ago (1692+ words) In nanoparticle synthesis, a dual-arm system was implemented to perform coordinated dosing, mixing, and centrifugation across modular synthesis units54 (Fig.2B). While the platform demonstrated versatility in manipulating a variety of laboratory tools, it relied on predefined procedures and required structured spatial…...
Visual information identification and Q&A of intangible cultural heritage inheritors by using enhanced Graph-Retrieval framework - npj Heritage Science
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (1569+ words) Although visual information extraction and large language models have advanced rapidly in recent years, significant challenges remain in applying these techniques to the recognition of ICH inheritors" visual business cards. A dataset of 5237 visual business cards of Chinese ICH inheritors…...
AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk?
17+ hour, 38+ min ago (708+ words) AI-controlled robots will not replace bench scientists soon, but AI systems are already taking work from human data analysts and research coders. Credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty Artificial intelligence is threatening many jobs, and those in science seem unlikely to…...
Daily briefing: Automated robot ‘scientists’ spark debate over the future of lab work
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (273+ words) Chatbot-driven lab robots are automating methods such as protein synthesis.Credit: Du Yu/Xinhua via Alamy Reference: bioRxiv preprint (not peer reviewed) Today, as it rains in the UK for the umpteenth day in a row, I'm once again reaching…...
‘An AlphaFold 4’ – scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (610+ words) The AI tool includes predictions of how proteins interact with potential therapeutic molecules.Credit: Isomorphic Labs Nearly two years after Google DeepMind released an updated AlphaFold3 geared at drug discovery, its biopharmaceuticals spin-off, Isomorphic Labs, announced an even more powerful artificial-intelligence…...
Turning on the ‘for you’ feed on X shifted political opinions, but turning it off did not
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (230+ words) Figure 1 is published under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. Rose-Stockwell, T. Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy " And What We Can Do About It (Hachette Books, 2023). Persily, N. & Tucker, J. A. (eds) Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for…...
Accurate predictions of disordered protein ensembles with STARLING
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1670+ words) Model accuracy depends on the balance between ensemble size and denoising steps. By comparing STARLING results to long-timescale Mpipi-GG simulations, we found that error in the Rg stabilizes beyond 30 denoizing steps and 400 conformations (Extended Data Fig. 4c'i). We adopted these as…...
An agentic system for rare disease diagnosis with traceable reasoning
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1586+ words) The following sections present the results of our study, beginning with an overview of the proposed DeepRare framework and the evaluation settings, followed by a detailed analysis of the main findings. To evaluate the performance of DeepRare, we consider three…...
AI succeeds in diagnosing rare diseases
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (287+ words) Timo Lassmann is at The Kids Research Institute Australia and the UWA Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009, Australia. T.L. used Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 to help prepare this News & Views article. Nguengang Wakap, S. et…...
Clinical-grade autonomous cytopathology through whole-slide edge tomography
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1694+ words) These class assignments were then used to colour-code cells in UMAP plots, with each point representing a single cell. Alpha transparency was modulated to reflect prediction confidence, enhancing visual interpretability. The resulting UMAP embeddings and class labels served as the…...