Surprise COVID Discovery Helps Explain How Coronaviruses Jump Species ( newsroom.uvahealth.com )
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1522825...
What's that saying again? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? I don't think we're quite there yet, but for all of you MOdified Newtonian Dynamics fans (and Dark Matter haters) out there here's a bit of good news.
Scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/WMU7k...
Edit: Not sure why the original link is no longer working, but heres an alternative...
Was this AI trained on an unbalanced data set? (Only black folks?) Or has it only been used to identify photos of black people? I have so many questions: some technical, some on media sensationalism