A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden…
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There have been several headlines over the past week about an AI chatbot officially passing the Turing test. These news reports are based on a recent preprint…
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Where would we be without knowledge? Everything from the building of spaceships to the development of new therapies has come…