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AI Creates Precise Gene Control Switches, "Landscape of Fear" Hypothesis Questioned, and TDIH - Fingerprints Used in an Investigation for the First Time

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Using AI, researchers develop DNA ‘switches’ to precisely control gene activity in specific cell types and the Yellowstone “Landscape of Fear” hypothesis is being questioned. Plus, on This Day in History, fingerprints are used in an investigation for the first time.  Researchers flip genes on and off with AI-designed DNA switches | ScienceDaily Predation, not fear of wolves, keeps elk from denuding Yellowstone | Science | AAAS From a fair to fingerprinting: Here's the history behind how we identify suspects | abc10.com Contact the show - [email protected] Thank you to our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Incogni. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code COOLSTUFF at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/coolstuff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Reggie Rizzou alongside Marcus Path.

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On today's episode, Using AI, researchers develop DNA switches to precisely

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control gene activity in specific cell types. And the Yellowstone landscape of fear hypothesis

1:02.5

is being questioned. Plus, on this day in history, fingerprints are used in an investigation

1:07.5

for the first time. That's coming up on cool stuff. Well, turning first to Science Daily, researchers at the Jackson Laboratory, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Yale University,

1:19.6

have used artificial intelligence to design thousands of new DNA switches that can precisely control the expression of a gene in different cell types.

1:30.6

Their new approach opens the possibility of controlling when and where genes are expressed in

1:35.6

the body for the benefit of human health and medical research in ways never before possible.

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Per Ryan Tuey, Ph.D., an associate professor at the Jackson Laboratory and co-signor

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of the work, quote, what is special about these synthetically designed elements is that

1:51.0

they show remarkable specificity to the target cell type they were designed for.

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