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bioRxiv is a free online repository for unpublished preprints in biology and life sciences, allowing researchers to share findings before peer review.
Minnesota researchers rewarmed pig kidneys stored at -150 degrees C, one for over a year, and the transplanted organs made urine. The work is a bioRxiv preprint without peer review, and the team has yet to show the kidneys sustain life long term.
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UCL researchers report a mesh of 2-micrometre channels that carried labelled tau and amyloid beta toward the brain surface in mice, in an unreviewed preprint. They are a candidate exit for the proteins that build up in Alzheimer's, so far untested in a living human brain.
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Julia Micaux's Paris-Saclay team tracked 17 freedivers through seven months of training and saw connectivity shift across five large-scale brain networks. The authors link the change to preserved memory, but their design can only show that the two go together.
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Jesse Poganik's Harvard group reports that donor hearts shifted toward their recipients' biological age in mice and in 11 human transplants. The bioRxiv preprint has not been peer reviewed, so it is enough to question the under-45 donor preference but not to rewrite it.
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A bioRxiv preprint puts Thomas Jefferson near 99.96 percent likely to have fathered at least one of Sally Hemings's sons, using DNA from locks of his preserved hair. A 1998 Y-chromosome test could point only to the Jefferson male line, and the analysis behind the new figure has not been peer-reviewed.
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A Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey team grew spiny plunderfish cells in the lab, then imaged them alive near 0 degrees Celsius. The preprint reports enlarged lysosomes and more networked mitochondria than in a temperate fish.
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The company says the money will train the next generation of its EDEN models. The published evidence so far is one January bioRxiv preprint, co-authored with Nvidia, whose venture arm also put money into the round.
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Academics get all 9 billion single-base predictions through a browser at no cost, while commercial users wait on a Google Cloud licence whose terms DeepMind has not published, including for its own sister company.
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AlphaGenome Atlas scores every possible single-letter change in the human genome and hands the result to anyone with a browser, which moves the scarce input from computing a prediction to confirming one. Price and drug-developer partnerships go unmentioned in the release.
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Rather than wait for experimental libraries to fill, the Cornell and BTI tool indexes a chemical space roughly a thousand times wider. What a query returns is a candidate structure rather than a confirmed one.
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A team in Finland assembled the species' genome from a living seal caught during a translocation programme, and posted it as a preprint. The population's inbreeding numbers still have to be measured.
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