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Building a molecular brain map to understand Alzheimer's disease

Resulting atlas of the aging human brain holds molecular insights into the brain's vulnerability and resilience. Less than a decade ago, when Dr. Hansruedi Mathys launched an ambitious project to ...
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insitro Partners with Lilly to Build First-in-Kind Machine Learning Models to Advance Small Molecule Drug Discovery

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--insitro, a pioneer in machine learning for drug discovery and development, today announced a new collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) to ...

Could the discovery of a tiny RNA molecule explain the origins of life?

One of the greatest mysteries of our planet is how a soup of lifeless chemicals transformed into the first living cell. There are several competing theories about where this happened, from frozen ...

Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself

These random molecules were fed a collection of three-base-long RNAs, each linked to a chemical tag. The idea was that if a molecule is capable of ligating one of these short RNA fragments to itself, ...
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Building a molecular brain map to understand Alzheimer’s disease

Less than a decade ago, when Dr. Hansruedi Mathys launched an ambitious project to create an annotated library of all the gene readouts stored within 100 individual brain cells, the task felt daunting ...