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Biology Genomes, cells, brains, and the tools that read and write them.
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Edition No. 34
Sunday, November 1, 2026
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Izalontamab brengitecan (iza-bren) is a first-in-class bispecific antibody-drug conjugate targeting epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 3 (HER3) and has shown…
By Hong, Zhou, Hou +43 · Lancet (London, England) · Oct 26, 2026
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Top stories 01 Self-supervised learning (SSL) enables scalable, label-free foundation models (FMs) that learn task-agnostic representations directly from images, bypassing cell segmentation and feature engineering inherent to…
Verdict: Notable█████░░░░░ 4.7
02 High-throughput 3D microscopic imaging generates brain-volume datasets at terabyte to petabyte scale, posing significant storage challenges for large-scale neuroimaging data.
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Europe PMC by Cuomo, Spenceley, Tanudisastro +41
Understanding the genetic basis of gene expression can shed light on the regulatory mechanisms underlying complex traits and diseases1,2.
No.03 Oct 28, 2026 Verdict: NotableScore █████░░░░░ 4.6
bioRxiv by Zhu, Cardenal-Antolin, Jin +3
Single-cell gene regulatory network (GRN) analysis via the SCENIC framework provides biologically interpretable cell-state representations through motif-validated transcription factor ....
No.04 Oct 30, 2026 Verdict: NotableScore █████░░░░░ 4.6
bioRxiv by Odell, Korn, Laraway +5
Model organisms carry decades of systematic gene-phenotype annotation, but connecting those annotations to human disease is rarely straightforward.
No.05 Oct 27, 2026 Verdict: NotableScore █████░░░░░ 4.6
bioRxiv by Hie, Hao, Liu +7
A central challenge in generative biology is translating knowledge learned from natural sequences and experiments into designs with desired functions.
No.06 Oct 30, 2026 Verdict: NotableScore ████░░░░░░ 4.5
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