Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. To combat the deadly diseases spread by mosquitoes, entomologists often turn to the blood-sucking insect's reproductive life. Deactivating their sperm, using a mosquito kill bucket to take out mosquito larvae, and now researchers are creating something akin to a sexually-transmitted disease just for mosquitoes. In a study published earlier this year in the journal Scientific Reports, a team of scientists from the United States and Burkina Faso in West Africa, detailed how they delivered a deadly fungal infection to female mosquitoes. The females are the ones who bite and spread disease to humans.

TileDB, the database for any complex data and compute, announced the launch of TileDB-SOMA, the first collection of software libraries that implement the open-source SOMA API specification. SOMA and TileDB-SOMA are the result of a collaboration between the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and TileDB to accelerate single-cell research by eliminating data silos and enable large-scale computations that are otherwise too challenging to execute on commodity hardware. "By streamlining access to enormous datasets, powerful new tools like TileDB-SOMA will accelerate the research efforts of single-cell biologists" New technologies and analysis tools have led to the exponential growth of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data, requiring new solutions that can accommodate datasets at scale. Advancements in genomics technologies have also enabled researchers to combine multiple modalities of data collected from the same cell samples, increasing the complexity and impact of single-cell analysis. "The unsaid assumption in single-cell research is that dataset size is bound by RAM, but instead of asking researchers to change their computational tools, we're rethinking how the data model itself could do more heavy lifting for scientists," said Stavros Papadopoulos, Founder & CEO, TileDB, Inc. "With TileDB-SOMA for R and Python, computational biologists can work across programming languages and combine data that was previously formatted specifically for Seurat, Anndata/Scanpy or Bioconductor. This breaks down data silos, and allows scientists to collaborate without the hassle of converting or duplicating data. Everyone can access the dataset, stored locally or in the cloud, at any scale."

ChatGPT is a powerful new tool that is making waves in the world of business and technology. Its advanced natural language processing (NLP) capabilities enable it to deliver a seamless, human-like conversation experience to users. It is based on the GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer-3) architecture, which is a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI. OpenAI is a research organization that aims to promote and advance artificial intelligence in a responsible and safe manner. It was founded in 2015 by a group of entrepreneurs, researchers, and philanthropists who wanted to advance the field of AI and make it more widely available.

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new algorithm may help discern if someone has autism by looking at brain scans. The algorithm also successfully predicts severity of autism symptoms in individual people. With further honing, the algorithm could lead to earlier diagnoses, more targeted therapies, and broadened understanding of autism's origins in the brain. "…our AI-driven brain'fingerprinting' model could potentially be a powerful new tool in advancing diagnosis and treatment."

Google DeepMind has collaborated with classical scholars to create a new AI tool that uses deep neural networks to help historians decipher the text of damaged inscriptions from ancient Greece. The new system, dubbed Ithaca, builds on an earlier text restoration system called Pythia. Ithaca doesn't just assist historians in restoring text--it can also identify a text's location of origin and the date of creation, according to a new paper the research team published in the journal Nature. In fact, Ithaca has already been used to help resolve an ongoing debate among historians about the correct dates for a group of ancient Athenian decrees. An interactive version of Ithaca is freely available, and the team is making its code open source.

Coders are busy these days as entire software infrastructures transition to the development and deployment of applications incorporating AI. Thankfully, there are powerful tools to help. Google Cloud, for example has recently added to its AI Hub launched in April in response to concerns about reducing redundant AI development efforts, and managing a growing number of machine learning tools. The added collaboration tools are aimed at promoting greater collaboration of data science and machine learning developers, as they manage their pipelines and trained models, as described in an account in Enterprise AI. Enhancements to the hub are said to allow great sharing of trained ML models and pipelines from the Kubeflow workflow automation tool.