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For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Kendra Pior Lewis in for Rachel Feldman. You're listening to our weekly Science News Roundup.

First up, a new AI model could help expand our understanding of genetics.

To get more insight into this research, I spoke with Tanya Lewis, Senior Health and Medicine

Desk Editor here at Siam.

Here's that conversation.

Thanks for joining us today.

Of course. Anything.

So a massive study came out on Wednesday in the journal Nature from Google researchers who have said that using their AI model, which they call alpha genome, that they can predict the function of certain chunks of DNA.

And, you know, I know most people at this point know that it's like the building blocks of life.

But what does that really mean?

And what are some of the gaps in our knowledge of DNA?

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