Category: 4. Technology

NEW YORK, NY, August 31, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ — Creative Biogene’s R&D focused business division, IntegrateRNA, which specializes in providing easy-to-use, superior products as well as high-quality novel services, today announced the launch of its Aminoacyl-tRNA In Vitro Synthesis Service. This service will help support and drive protein synthesis research by enabling the generation of customized aminoacylated tRNAs. The molecules are key to robust protein translation in in vitro systems, thus allowing for more accurate and scalable protein synthesis of non-canonical amino acid-containing proteins.

The technology is set to provide researchers with the tools they need to engineer proteins with improved functional characteristics and will find applications in synthetic biology, drug discovery, enzyme engineering, and more.

Technical Features and Innovations

The service works by taking advantage of a robust in vitro translation system to covalently link amino acids to transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules. This enzyme-based process, which is similar to that which happens inside living cells during translation, will enable the high-yield production of aminoacylated tRNAs. The technology will also support the inclusion of non-canonical or modified amino acids, enabling an expanded design space for researchers. This means that scientists can now design and produce custom proteins with enhanced stability, activity, or specificity, and have potential applications in developing new therapeutics or industrial enzymes.

Industries and Use Cases

Anticipated across pharma R&D, protein engineering, and novel biologics development, the use cases for this service include the ability to insert non-standard amino acids into proteins, which can help researchers create protein variants with unique properties that may not be possible through natural processes alone.

Marcia Brady, Head of Technology, Creative Biogene, stated: “Synthesizing proteins with non-canonical amino acids is a transformative development. It opens up new possibilities for designing proteins with specific properties and could significantly speed up the development of biotechnology.”

Plans for the Future

In the future, IntegrateRNA plans to improve its Aminoacyl-tRNA synthesis platform by enabling support for an even broader array of amino acid modifications and expanding production to an industrial scale. These advancements could have a major impact on synthetic biology and the development of therapeutic proteins, leading to the development of next-generation biopharmaceuticals and engineered enzymes.

About IntegrateRNA

IntegrateRNA is a division of Creative Biogene, and a trusted supplier of high-quality oligonucleotides and custom RNA synthesis services. Catering to academia, pharma, and biotech, the company is supporting research at the cutting edge of molecular biology and therapeutic development.

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Back to school season is upon us, and for many of us that means watching our progeny take their first steps away from the nest.

And, if you’re like many of the What Hi-Fi? team, as well as making sure they have all the pots and pans they need and a few cases of industrial strength penicillin, it also means making sure they have a proper sound system – or at the very least the tools to build their own.

Summary

• PowerToys Peek will gain a CLI: run PowerToys.Peek.CLI.exe to preview files from the command line.
• Peek previews via Ctrl+Space; CLI brings it closer to macOS Quick Look for power users.
• Microsoft plans to ship the Peek CLI soon.

Peek is one of the best PowerToys tools you can use to make your Windows 11 File Explorer better and take it one step closer to feature parity with macOS’ Finder. However, that doesn’t mean PowerToys Peek is as good as Finder’s Quick Look function, which also has support for macOS’ command line.

Now, it looks like Microsoft wants to close this gap with macOS’ Quick Look by upgrading Peek’s capabilities. The software giant has started working on a new Peek feature that will give PowerToys users more ways to preview files on Windows. And the best part is that we also know when Microsoft is planning to release the feature.

PowerToys Peek will soon step into a new territory

For those unaware, PowerToys Peek allows users to preview files from File Explorer by selecting a file and then pressing Ctrl + Space on the keyboard. macOS Finder’s Quick Look function also has the same purpose: it allows users to preview files without opening them in full apps. On macOS, it feels slightly easier, as you need to only press the Space key after selecting the file to take previews.

However, this isn’t what puts macOS’ alternative slightly ahead. Many power users would want to use the QuickLook function simply because it also has a command-line utility called “qlmanage,” which you can use to trigger Quick Look previews from Terminal. This may not be that useful for casual users, but developers and other power users can benefit from it in many ways.

Microsoft is also planning to do something similar with PowerToys Peek. One of Peek’s upcoming features will be support for the command line, according to a pull request on Microsoft PowerToys’ GitHub page. As per the description, users will be able to use the Windows command line and type “PowerToys.Peek.CLI.exe ” to preview a file.

This means, if you’re using a command line on Windows, you won’t need to switch to File Explorer to preview a file. All that’s required of you is to type the command line followed by the name of the file to preview. It’ll open the same preview window that you see upon triggering Peek by pressing the Ctrl + Space key.

When is the feature coming to PowerToys?

As much as we’d love to see this natively built into Windows, PowerToys is currently the only way to use the Peek feature. And since it’ll soon have its command line utility, power users may finally start considering Peek as a strong contender to its macOS counterpart. And you don’t have to wait very long for this.

According to the pull request on GitHub, Microsoft is set to introduce this feature in PowerToys version 0.95. The current PowerToys update is version 0.93, and the next is version 0.94, which is expected to arrive in September. So, we can expect PowerToys version 0.95, which will include Peek’s new feature, in October this year.

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The Lego Ideas submission page on the building brick maker’s website is full of intriguing proposals from fans. The Palace of Versailles, Mondrian’s New York Boogie Woogie, a life-size table tennis bat and….er… a cat in a loaf of bread (something to do with a meme, apparently).

But one of the most intriguing proposals for any lovers of retro creative tech has to be a Lego iMac G3. The design is picking up so many votes on the site that it might actually make it past the threshold to earn a review from Lego. I hope it does because this is the perfect retro toy I never knew I needed and could become on of the best Lego sets for adults.

Lego Ideas is a section of the Lego website where fans can submit their own proposals for new sets to be voted on by other fans. As spotted by 9to5mac, the 700-piece Lego Apple iMac G3 was submitted by a fan designer who goes by the name of Terauma, replicating Apple’s classic 1998 all-in-one computer.

The most pressing question about the Galaxy S26 Edge is whether Samsung will relent and switch to a silicon-carbon battery with a much bigger capacity. Unfortunately, new information from a Chinese regulator makes that appear very unlikely, though it’s not all bad news.

A listing by the Chinese 3C regulatory body, spotted by SamMobile, reveals that the Galaxy S26 Edge’s battery may still use lithium-ion technology, just like its predecessor. Despite that, the battery with part number EB-BS947ABY has a rated capacity of 4,078 mAh. 

That capacity would be marketed as 4,200 mAh, which aligns with some of the earlier rumors about the device. Most importantly, that’s a sizable upgrade from the meager 3,900 mAh of the Galaxy S25 Edge, even if Samsung won’t relent and switch to a silicon-carbon battery.

Summary

• InfernoPlus is squishing all of Morrowind into Elden Ring, modernizing the classic world.
• Mod keeps Morrowind’s soul while adding modern QoL fixes for today’s players.
• Project’s ~half done; InfernoPlus asks for interest before dedicating much more time.

Recommending Morrowind in today’s day and age is a tough sell. While I am perfectly happy to play an RPG system where you can see an enemy, walk up to them so you’re touching toes with one another, swing your sword directly at their torso, and miss because an invisible dice roll told you that you missed, I can’t really see the people who were raised on Skyrim and Oblivion Remastered putting up with it. Which is totally legitimate; while Morrowind won over my heart, it’s still a product of its time and lacks the quality of life features that modern gaming brought to us.

Fortunately, there are mods for that. No, not Morrowind mods, albeit you can iron out some of the older game’s many wrinkles with a third-party tweak here and there. No, I’m talking about a work-in-progress Elden Ring mod that recreates the world of Morrowind into a modern-day RPG engine, which should make it far more palatable for today’s market.

Morrowind in Elden Ring is the perfect marriage of old and new

As spotted by GamesRadar, this amazing feat was performed by InfernoPlus. This is the first time I’ve met them, but GamesRadar is telling me that InfernoPlus also ported Halo maps into Dark Souls. So that should give you an idea of what to expect with this project.

This time around, InfernoPlus is squishing the entirety of Morrowind into Elden Ring. They originally tried to fit it into the Dark Souls engine, but it couldn’t handle how “dense” Morrowind is, which is surprising, given how the Elder Scrolls title came out in 2002. In fact this 23-year-old world also proved too tasking for Dark Souls 3, which could only just squeeze it in within the world loading mechanics.

So, how do we play this mod? Unfortunately, it’s not quite ready yet; in fact, InfernoPlus claims it’s about half done. However, they do, understandably, want to gauge interest in this mod before they dedicate a ton more time into a mod that nobody cares about. Well, if you clicked on this article, there’s a good chance that you, our dear reader, do care about something like this, so be sure to leave them a comment saying you want more of it. Because I certainly do.

If you’ve never heard of Morrowind before, it’s the third entry in the Elder Scrolls series, arriving just before Oblivion. If you’d like to know more, we crowned it as one of the best original Xbox games of all time and one of the classic PC games you can (and should) still play today.