Wall Street Journal

The Algorithm Will See You Now

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot and SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary discuss Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) and their role in AI applications, the ...
The Economist

Tumour cells use a genetic trick to become drug-resistant

CANCERS ARE real biological cheats. Whereas most of the cells in a healthy animal’s body get along by following the same set of genetic rules, cancer cells shamelessly ignore them. Healthy cells, for ...
ascopubs.org

Increasing Use of Germline Genetic Testing in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Relationship to Clinical Outcome: A Single-Institution Study

Survival in Patients With Low Expression of Wild-Type Homologous Recombination Genes: Refining the Homologous Recombination Paradigm in Colorectal Cancer Patients with PDAC being treated at RPCCC that ...
Medscape

Australia Bans Use of Genetic Testing Information by Life Insurers to Deny or Restrict Coverage

Australia has passed a law banning life insurance companies from denying or restricting coverage based on the results of genetic tests or even based on whether an applicant or their genetic relatives ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
Medscape

FDA OKs Leucovorin for Ultra-Rare Genetic Disorder but Not Autism

The FDA has approved expanded use of leucovorin calcium tablets (Wellcovorin, GSK) for treatment of adults and children with cerebral folate deficiency and a confirmed variant in the folate receptor 1 ...
NBC News

Genetic genealogy brings promise and challenges to the Nancy Guthrie case

TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous ...
CNN

With no initial DNA match, Guthrie investigators turn to one of their newest tools to crack cases: genetic genealogy

Only a few years ago, Tuesday’s announcement that a glove believed to be connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, Arizona, had no match in a DNA database would have been a dead end.
The Conversation

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right‑wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...
The New York Times

My First Child Has a Genetic Syndrome. Can I Use I.V.F. to Spare My Second?

With such a small risk of illness, does this type of embryo selection border on eugenics? By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since ...
KTLA

Only one homicide solved using genetic genealogy in L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. history. Here’s why

Detective Shaun McCarthy has worked on a lot of cases in his more than 40 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “I was 10 years as a street gang detective, and now I’m in my 23rd ...