Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution

Some gene variants became consistently more or less frequent over time in ancient human populations — a sign of natural selection. Credit: Denis-Art/Getty The biggest ever study of ancient human DNA shows that human evolution has accelerated over the past 10,000 years. Researchers identified hundreds of gene variants that evolved through natural selection in ancient…

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Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 and Full-Stack AI Studio—While Sitting on Something Much Scarier

In brief Anthropic is preparing Claude Opus 4.7 and an AI design tool for websites and presentations Claude Mythos remains Anthropic’s true frontier model, and the company won’t release it publicly. The industry still can’t reliably measure AI improvements, making claims about Opus 4.7’s gains hard to verify. Anthropic is gearing up to release Claude…

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Mapping convergent regulators of melanoma drug resistance by PerturbFate

Cell culture A375, HEK293T, Sk-Mel-3 and Sk-Mel-24 cell lines were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection. A375 and HEK293T cells were maintained in high-glucose Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium supplemented with L-glutamine, sodium pyruvate (Gibco; 11995065) and 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Sigma-Aldrich; F4135). Sk-Mel-3 cells were maintained in McCoy’s 5A medium (Gibco; 16600082) supplemented…

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