A Multimodal Conversational Agent for DNA, RNA and Protein Tasks

A multimodal conversational agent for DNA, RNA and protein tasks

Language models are thriving, powering conversational agents that assist and empower humans to solve a number of tasks. Recently, these models were extended to support additional modalities including vision, audio and video, demonstrating impressive capabilities across multiple domains, including healthcare. Still, conversational agents remain limited in biology as they cannot yet fully comprehend biological sequences. Meanwhile, high-performanc…

Increased Protein Disulphide Isomerase Slows Accumulation of DNA Damage

DNA damage is involved in degenerative aging, though there remains some debate over exactly how it can contribute meaningfully to widespread tissue dysfunction over and above the increased risk of cancer. Near all mutational damage to DNA is promptly repaired, while most of the lasting mutations occur in unused regions of the genome, in somatic cells with few divisions remaining. While most mutations can thus produce little harm, one possible pa…