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Predicting jumping genes' roles in changing genome size

A genome contains all of the DNA of every living organism, but its contents don't stop there—most of these structures also contain snippets of DNA that can copy and paste themselves to "infect" a genome, expanding its size. Precisely why that happens remains a mystery.

World

Couple jailed 14 years each for N67.6m property fraud in Lagos

A Lagos court has sentenced a couple, Harry Uyanwanne and Oluwakemi Odia, also known as Kristein Uyanwanne, to 14 years' imprisonment each for a N67.6 million property fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, disclosed this in a statement, saying Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja…

AI

Owning Anthropic Before It Goes Public

John Cole Scott, president and & CIO of CEF Advisors, joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Anthropic filed on Oct. 26 for an IPO that’s set to take place before Thanksgiving.

AI

Ensuring health equity with the use of AI

Only 13% of articles examined in a review of artificial intelligence (AI) and health equity explicitly defined health equity—a gap that could leave AI-driven approaches benefiting the most advantaged groups. That's a key finding from a review led by Caroline R. Efird of Georgetown University and colleagues. The research was published Oct.

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