The AI code wars are heating up

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the AI coding and vibe-coding booms, follow David Pierce. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. Writing code was a killer app for AI even before anyone…

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Single-cell spatiotemporal dissection of the human maternal–fetal interface

Tissue acquisition and processing for joint single-nucleus multiome profiling and spatial transcriptomics Snap-frozen decidual and basal plate samples were obtained from the existing placenta tissue banks at Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco (Supplementary Tables 1 and 4). All samples were collected with written informed consent. Tissues were derived from women undergoing elective…

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