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Catherine Offord

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Journalist writing about life science, policy, and research integrity. Correspondent for Science magazine.
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AI helps create bacterium that’s partially missing a universal amino acid

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By Catherine Offord
| Science Magazine
Of the hundreds of types of amino acids found on Earth, it’s a mystery why life settled on 20 as the building blocks for all its proteins. Although certain species can use more—some microbes employ up to 22—no one’s ever found one using fewer. But now scientists are closer to creating such an organism, after partially eliminating one of the 20 amino acids from the bacterium Escherichia coli.
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By Catherine Offord
| Science Magazine
Since beginning data collection in 2006, the charity UK Biobank has promised to protect participants’ confidentiality. The project has gathered DNA, protein levels, medical images, and other data from more than 500,000 U.K. volunteers to support ground-breaking health research worldwide on links between genes, traits, and diseases.
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First complete genome loaded onto a quantum computer

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By Catherine Offord
| Science Magazine
Since the landmark decoding of the human genome in the early 2000s, DNA sequencing has exploded. Traditional computers have struggled to keep pace with the deluge of data and soaring processing demands, creating a bottleneck in scientists’ capacity to mine the myriad variations in DNA for biological insights—and a push for alternative solutions. Now, one option, quantum computing, may be a step closer to helping.
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