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Avatar Tech: Breakthrough AI Model Can Translate The Language Of Plant Life

by Keith CowingDecember 23, 2024December 23, 2024

A pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered model able to understand the sequences and structure patterns that make up the genetic “language” of plants, has been launched by a research collaboration.

Seeing the polymerase molecule that transcribes photosynthetic genes in the plant chloroplast. Images of individual molecules collected with an electron microscope were sorted and aligned to reveal details of the structural architecture of the protein complex. CREDIT Michael Webster & Ishika Pramanick

Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biophysics, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Microbiology & Virology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Plant Biology, Press Release

Photosynthetic Secrets Come To Light

by Keith CowingMarch 5, 2024March 5, 2024

Secrets of photosynthesis have been discovered at atomic level, shedding important new light on this plant super-power that greened the earth more than a billion years ago.