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VCC 2026 Chronicle · 2026-09-18

The edge of the map

Borrowed biology kept winning — until we asked which cells we were actually predicting.

VCC 2026 Chronicle · 2026-09-11

Borrowed biology beat invented biology

We moved a genome-wide CRISPRi screen into a cell type it never saw — 272 of 300 targets got real signatures.

VCC 2026 Chronicle · 2026-08-23

A louder metric is not a truer one

In the 2025 challenge, a score with a volume knob partly measured confidence — not truth. This is why it matters.