Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.
eLife

Conformational Variability of HIV-1 Env Trimer and Viral Vulnerability

In silico antibody accessibility analysis indicates that ectodomain epitopes are transiently exposed, while MPER epitopes are virtually always occluded in the pre-fusion trimer.
eLife

Between-species variation in neocortical sulcal anatomy of the carnivoran brain

A large-scale investigation of carnivoran brain diversity, providing a unified description of folding patterns, their relationship to behaviour and ecology, and the foundation for future ...
Techzine Europe

What is UCP? Google’s open standard for agentic commerce

Google launches Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for seamless AI shopping. Open-source standard supported by 20+ partners ...
GitHub

An AI tool to gain insight into X (Twitter) trends through web-scraping, natural language processing, and abstractive summarization.

TrendScope is a full-stack (Next.js/FastAPI) web application that relies on Selenium web-scraping to extract the latest trends from X (formerly known as Twitter). With the use of multiple headers and ...