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Rachel Bujalski for Quanta Magazine

The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating biological design

February, 2025

Sasha Maslov for Quanta Magazine

Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide.

The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch.

April 16, 2024

Myriam Wares for Quanta Magazine

Epigenetic ‘Clocks’ Predict Animals’ True Biological Age A statistical analysis of chemical tags on DNA may help unify disparate theories of aging. August 17, 2022

Republished in Wired, September 18, 2022