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Sep 3
Our ancestors emerged on a primitive Earth that lacked oxygen. @ishahjain, @AyushDMidha, and team found a surprising way that we still use their coping strategies today.
The ancient anaerobic pathways still at work inside our cells | Arc Institute
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Arc Institute
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Sep 2
Science Fellow @zhou_jingtian builds single-cell and computational frameworks to probe the 3D genome. His work tells us more about how the epigenome and transcriptome interact to shape cell state and complex disease:
Why Jingtian Zhou is building high-resolution maps of the 3D genome | Arc Institute
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Arc Institute
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Aug 26
Nearly 300 teams have already submitted to the Virtual Cell Challenge leaderboard to see how their initial models rank on this year’s six metrics. Here’s the current standing:
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Arc Institute
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Aug 20
The 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge has begun! Submissions and the leaderboard are now open. This year's task: multi-context generalization and zero-shot prediction. Models will need to predict perturbation responses in cellular contexts with no Challenge-specific training data.
The 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge: predicting perturbation responses in cell contexts a model has...
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Aug 19
Evolution builds genes by recombining domains from existing ones. Innovation Investigator @Roth_Lab and colleagues introduce DESynR, a platform that does this on demand, creating new genes that outperform their natural counterparts in human CAR T cells.
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