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The ADePT framework for assessing autonomous laboratory robotics - Communications Chemistry
1+ hour, 58+ 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
2+ hour, 52+ 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…...
Integrating digital solutions improves mental health management in cancer care - Communications Medicine
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (1749+ words) The figures were created based on the tools provided by Biorender.com (accessed on 03/12/2024). We acknowledge Sogen Biotechnology, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and the SolvingLab team for their technical support and assistance. These authors contributed equally: Anqi Lin, Yuquan Zhang, Aimin…...
Partnership will deliver Wales' first dental technology apprenticeship - BDJ Team
6+ hour, 38+ min ago (255+ words) BDJ Team volume13,page 49 (2026)Cite this article Cardiff Metropolitan University has partnered with sector experts to deliver Wales' first higher apprenticeship in dental technology, marking a major step forward for work-based routes into the Welsh dental technology profession. Partnering with the…...
AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk?
18+ hour, 33+ 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, 10+ 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lab robots are automating methods such as protein synthesis.Credit: Du Yu/Xinhua via Alamy Reference: bioRxiv preprint (not peer reviewed) Today, as it rains in the UK for the umpteenth day in a row, I'm once again reaching…...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, 19+ 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, 5+ 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, 5+ 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, 5+ 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…...