What is opinion and what is evidence?

Genetic variations accumulating within populations over generations give rise to biological evolution. Evolutionary changes can result in the formation of novel varieties and entire new species. These changes are responsible for the diverse forms of life inhabiting the planet. The evidence for evolution suggests that all living organisms descended from common ancestors.

This article describes RUGGED (Retrieval Under Graph-Guided Explainable disease Distinction), which integrates Large Language Model (LLM) inference with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It draws evidence from expert-curated biomedical knowledge bases and peer-reviewed biomedical publications to synthesize new knowledge from up-to-date information, identify explainable and actionable predictions, and pinpoint promising directions for hypothesis-driven...

Here we describe an optimized and efficient removal strategy for the collection of bio-particles present in ‘touch DNA’ samples, together with an enhanced amplification protocol involving a one-step 5 µl micro-volume lysis/STR amplification, to permit the recovery of short tandem repeat (STR) profiles of the bio-particle...

The confirmation bias is the tendency to focus on information that confirms our existing beliefs and ignore information that is inconsistent with our expectations. For example, if you think that your professor is not very nice, you notice all of the instances of rude behavior exhibited by the professor while ignoring the countless pleasant interactions he is involved in on a daily basis. Have you ever fallen prey to the confirmation bias, either as the source or target of such bias?