Good News in Review: A look back at the positive in 2020
Good News in Review: A look back at the positive in 2020 By Jorge Quiquivix and Matt Bowman | December 31, 2020 at 7:06 PM CST - Updated December 31 at 7:28 PM
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - With all the bad we saw in 2020, Region 8 News worked hard to focus on the good stories, covering a slew of heartwarming and inspiring stories.
Here’s a look at 8 stories that touched our heart’s this year:
Our first story comes from Caraway, back on Jan. 3.
We uncovered the story behind a sweet viral picture of a firefighter and a young girl.
The past week was a momentous occasion for protein structure prediction, structural biology at large, and in due time, may prove to be so for the whole of life sciences. CASP14, the conference for the biennial competition for the prediction of protein structure from sequence, took place virtually over multiple remote working platforms. DeepMind, Google’s premier AI research group, entered the competition as they did the previous time, when they upended expectations of what an industrial research lab can do. The outcome this time was very, very different however. At CASP13 DeepMind made an impressive showing with AlphaFold but was ultimately within the bounds of the usual expectations of academic progress, albeit at an accelerated rate. At CASP14 DeepMind produced an advance so thorough it compelled CASP organizers to declare the protein structure prediction problem for single protein chains to be solved. In my read of most CASP14 attendees (virtual as it was), I sense that this was
in the window and he shot in self-defense. now he s been indicted on several charges including murder. the 11 citizens summoned to this special investigative grand jury spent the month of may basically going over just reams of evidence, hundreds of different pieces of evidence related to the case as well as hearing from more than 45 witnesses involved. reporter: the grand jury indicted his mother, also, 55- year-old bethany sullivan saying she was forging public records to hide negative information from harmon- wright s file. she was an administrative secretary to the chief at the time harmon was hired. she left the department in 2010. . the officer s next and initial cot appearance will be june 8th. court appearance will be june 8th. canada s transportation safety board is taking over the investigation into this deadly plane crash in virginia yesterday because the accident involves both faa and ntsb employees. two small planes collided midair yesterday crashed about a