Ingrid Wickelgren

Contributing Writer

Latest Articles

The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA

February 5, 2025

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating biological design.

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Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide.

April 16, 2024

The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch.

Epigenetic ‘Clocks’ Predict Animals’ True Biological Age

August 17, 2022

A statistical analysis of chemical tags on DNA may help unify disparate theories of aging.

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