Tag: mathematics
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Tissue Chip, A.I. Companies Partner on Heart Drug Discovery
A developer of chip devices emulating heart tissue and a medical analytics company using artificial intelligence are jointly discovering new drugs to treat aging heart muscles.
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AI, Wearables Posing Health Privacy Risks
An analysis shows artificial intelligence algorithms can connect Americans’ activity tracking data to to their individual private medical information.
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Drug Discovery Start-Up Gains $400M Financing
A 2 year-old company using computational techniques to find protein-targeting drugs raised $400 million in new financing, led by the venture funding arm of Softbank.
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Virtual Reality Illness Fix in Development
A computer science and engineering team in Texas is developing a technical solution for virtual reality experiences that can make some users physically ill, with symptoms like seasickness.
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A.I.-Aided Processes Reduce Chemical Reaction Time, Waste
A chemical engineering lab designed processes with artificial intelligence to screen chemical reactions in small quantities that can reduce the time and waste in current methods.
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Companies to Analyze 40,000 Protein Samples
A partnership between genomic analysis company deCode Genetics and proteomics enterprise SomaLogic plans to analyze protein activity in 40,000 human samples.
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Validation Scheme Proposed for Medical Algorithms
A law school professor urges developers, users, and regulators of machine learning in medicine to validate the algorithms that represent their underlying decision-making processes.
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Mount Sinai, Sanofi, Sema4 Partner on Long-Term Asthma Study
A collaboration of Mount Sinai medical center, drug maker Sanofi, and data science company Sema4 aims to track people with asthma for 5 years to help develop personalized treatments for the disease.
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Project to Catalog Precision Lung Cancer Immunotherapies
A new research initiative in the U.K. is collecting and mapping precise combinations of therapies that invoke the immune system to treat lung cancer.
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Personalized Computer Models Developed for Heart Disease
Researchers in the U.K. are developing computer models of heart functions that enable physicians to simulate recommended treatments for individual patients to gauge and optimize their outcomes.