Joshua Berkowitz A New Weapon Against Superbugs: Scientists Discover Lariocidin, a Lasso Peptide That Stops Bacteria in Their Tracks Common infections become deadly because the bacteria causing them have learned to resist our best medicines. This is the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance . Scientists are urgently looking for n... Chemistry Medicine NIH Funded
Joshua Berkowitz Google Deepmind Launches Open Source TxGemma for Drug Development Researchers from Google Deepmind have introduced TxGemma, a suite of efficient, generalist large language models (LLMs) designed to address the costly and high-risk nature of therapeutic drug developm... Artificial Intelligence Chemistry
Joshua Berkowitz Fast and Accurate Multi-Bacterial Identification Using Advanced Nucleic Acid Probes The rapid identification of pathogenic bacteria is of paramount importance in the effective management of infectious diseases, particularly in acute and life-threatening conditions such as sepsis. Sep... Biology Medicine
Joshua Berkowitz Advances in Automating General Science Discovery with Ai What if you could develop an automated system capable of conducting the entire scientific research process in order to discover new knowledge across a wide variety of domains? Well that's exactly what... Artificial Intelligence Computer Science
Joshua Berkowitz Quantum Processors Can Now Communicate Paving the Way for Distributed Quantum Networks MIT researchers have developed a photon-shuttling interconnect that enables direct communication between multiple superconducting quantum processors . This advancement could overcome scalability chall... Computer Science Quantum
Joshua Berkowitz Empowering LLMs with Tools For Drug Discovery This research introduces ChemCrow , an advanced Large Language Model (LLM) integrated with chemistry-specific computational tools designed to enhance the capability of handling complex chemistry tasks... Artificial Intelligence Chemistry
Joshua Berkowitz AI Trojan Attacks: Exploiting ML Vulnerabilities in Hardware Trojan Detection The increasing reliance on globalized semiconductor supply chains has introduced serious security concerns, particularly the risk of Hardware Trojans (HTs) embedded in integrated circuits (ICs). Machi... Artificial Intelligence Computer Science
Joshua Berkowitz Innovations in Quantum Networking: QNodeOS Enables High-Level Programming and Multitasking on Quantum Processors The development of quantum networks aims to enable revolutionary applications that classical communication alone cannot achieve. However, executing quantum network applications has traditionally requi... Computer Science Quantum
Joshua Berkowitz Revolutionizing Polystyrene Recycling Through Photothermal Conversion The increasing accumulation of plastic waste , particularly black polystyrene, has posed significant environmental challenges due to its poor recyclability. A recent NIH funded study by Oh et al. (202... Chemistry
Joshua Berkowitz Unveiling Gemini Embedding: Advancing Generalizable Text Representations Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved natural language understanding, but generalizable text embeddings remain a challenge. This research by Google DeepMind i... Artificial Intelligence Computer Science
Joshua Berkowitz Rapid Traversal of Vast Chemical Space Using Machine Learning-guided Docking Screens The exponential growth of make-on-demand chemical libraries offers unprecedented opportunities for early drug discovery. However, screening these multi-billion-scale (potentially multi-trillion soon) ... Chemistry Computer Science Medicine
Joshua Berkowitz Exploiting Edited Large Language Models as General Scientific Optimizers Scientific optimization plays a crucial role across various domains, including mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly used for mathematical optimizati... Artificial Intelligence Computer Science