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'Milestone': Scientists claim to build synthetic cell, raising concerns in step toward artificial life
University of Minnesota researchers say "SpudCell" is the most life-like synthetic cell yet, able to grow, divide and pass traits to offspring.…
Synthetic Monitoring in 2026: The DevOps Safety Net That Catches Incidents Before Users Do
Modern DevOps teams are under pressure to detect failures earlier, reduce noisy alerts, and prove...…
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among signatories on an open letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA potentially used in AI-developed bioweapons (Emily Mullin/Wired)
Emily Mullin / Wired : Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among signatories on an open letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA potentially used in AI-developed bioweapons — L…
Researchers have found a way to make synthetic left-handed "mirror" DNA communicate and co-assemble with natural right-handed DNA by bypassing hydrogen bonds and relying entirely on physical geometric shapes.
Can farmers become less reliant on synthetic fertiliser? Some are trying
A war thousands of kilometres away from Australia's farms is quietly reshaping what crops are planted and what will be available at supermarkets in the future.…
Scientists Used A.I. to Redesign a Microbe's Machinery to Function Without a Key Ingredient of Life
Although the researchers did not create an entire cell that could function without a crucial building block, the findings represent a big step in synthetic biology and provide a gl…
User-testing the user-tester: synthetic user feedback driven self improvemnt
I had a coding agent run user studies on the product that runs user studies. Twenty-five-plus iterations, six hours of agent-on-task time, three phases. Here’s what it tried to get…
If we can synthesize genomes and artificial membranes, how close are we to creating a fully synthetic living cell from scratch?
Show HN: Apery – Synthetic Data Generator for AI Agents
Synthetic Data Generator for Agents. Contribute to compuficial/apery development by creating an account on GitHub.…
How are you actually correlating a failed synthetic check to the trace and infra behind it?
When Does Synthetic Patent Data Help? Volume-Fidelity Trade-offs in Low-Resource Multi-Label Classification
We study when LLM-generated synthetic data helps low-resource multi-label patent classification, separating true synthetic value from the confound that larger augmented sets can wi…
Proposal for a gender-neutral pronoun for synthetic minds: “īø”
Do Synthetic Brain MRIs Reliably Improve Tumour Classification? A StyleGAN2-ADA Class-Plane Augmentation Study on BRISC 2025
Generative augmentation is often proposed as a remedy for small medical-image datasets, but synthetic images are only useful when they improve downstream task performance. "Augment…
Punjab leads in NDPS arrests in north India, Delhi in synthetic drugs; Haryana key transit route
The report was based on data from six states and UTs, including Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi and Uttarakhand. | India News…
SEC Commissioner Peirce counters views that crypto rule will foster synthetic tokens
Hester Peirce, the commissioner behind the SEC's Crypto Task Force, made statements on the unreleased proposal, perhaps tamping down mistaken beliefs.…
AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it.
Steven Rosenbaum explains how inaccurate quotes got into his book The Future of Truth.…
Coupled DNA nanopores control molecular traffic inside synthetic cell microreactors
Can liveness detection models generalise to synthetic media generation techniques they were never trained on? [D]
Synthetic variants, vanishing trees threaten legacy of the Nilgiris eucalyptus oil
Nilgiris' eucalyptus oil faces decline amid synthetic variants, prompting a GI tag application to protect its legacy and industry.…
Slow Surveys Are Dead: Terapage CEO on Why Experts Are Moving to Synthetic Data
London-based AI Research Platform Terapage launches advanced synthetic data capabilities that help organisations conduct faster, privacy-safe, and more scalable user research witho…
Naturally occurring soil fungi could boost rice yields while reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizers
‘Unacceptable’ or a ‘boost for local sport’? Synthetic turf plan for Sydney park edges closer
Plans to convert two inner west sports fields to all-weather turf have cleared a hurdle after the divisive project won heritage approval.…
Understanding Synthetic Users and Synthetic Data: Future of AI-Powered Research
Student-built system unlocks fully autonomous electroporation for 96- and 384-well workflows
Inside the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, where some of the most advanced and technical automated infrastructure on campus resides, two students saw an opportunity hidin…
New microscope reveals previously hidden differences in photosynthetic light-harvesting antennae
Conquering the final frontiers in nanographene synthetic methodologies
Nanographenes are organic semiconductor materials used in smartphones, OLED displays, and solar cells. At the molecular level, they are composed of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons…