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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…...

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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…...

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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…...

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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…...

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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…...

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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…...

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‘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…...

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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…...

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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…...

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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…...