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A Delaware judge ruled that the federal government’s license to university inventions does not automatically protect a private supplier. Moderna’s separate government-contract defense—and the underlying infringement claims—remain unresolved.
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A compact deep-learning model distinguished young from aged mouse blood stem cells by reading subtle patterns in DAPI-stained nuclei. Its most immediate value is as a research-screening tool—not a clinical age test or proof of cellular rejuvenation.
Read storyResearchers carbonized a laboratory-made papyrus scroll, detected lead-spiked writing with handheld X-ray fluorescence and reconstructed readable text from CT data. The proof of concept could help identify which surviving Herculaneum scrolls are best suited for virtual unrolling.
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A programmable trapped-ion device reproduced a simplified model of particle-pair formation and tracked the process in space and time. The experiment is a physics benchmark—not yet a quantum advantage demonstration.
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A population-scale atlas of the human prefrontal cortex links cell-specific gene activity across Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, schizophrenia and five other conditions—but it is a research map, not a diagnostic test or treatment.
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Anthropic says a coordinated group of Claude agents found a reverse-transcriptase system with CRISPR-like repeat arrays, then human scientists confirmed its molecular components in the lab. Its biological function remains unknown.
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Fourteen research teams will test whether gene editing, RNA treatments and engineered microbes can help threatened species withstand disease and climate stress — under a contained-research rule that bars releases into the wild during the programme.
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The move brings a frontier-model developer closer to experimental science and the physical validation of computational results.
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Future missions could give the spacecraft a path forward as the partners work through the programme’s technical and operational questions.
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