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Profluent is the company blog at profluent.bio, writing about ai and science. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Editing the Human Genome with AI”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Profluent's post on AI-designed gene editing, including OpenCRISPR-1 and a claim of editing the human genome with a fully AI-designed system. The one comment only quotes the post's abstract.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The next frontier is authoring new biology, and with AI, we have the power to write the future—creating solutions that transform medicine, agriculture, and beyond.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Editing the Human Genome with AI
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. I've been looking at yeast to see if it is possible to create a NOR gate. Then the game is to use the CPU that someone created in Conway's game of life to create a yeast-based computer. The CRISPR stuff: "We demonstrate the world’s first successful editing of the human genome using a gene editing system where every component is fully designed by AI. Our most performant AI-generated editor, OpenCRISPR-1, achieves sim…

    Comment linking /blog/editing-the-human-genome-with-ai

    on “Crazy ideas for future synthetic biology and bioengineering”
  2. Submitted OpenCRISPR-1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Editing the Human Genome with AI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Decoding the Language of Proteins with AI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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