Tag: mathematics
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New Antibiotics Discovered in Stomach Peptides
Researchers in Italy and the U.S. found a potential source of new antibiotics in derivatives of peptides used by the digestive process in the stomach.
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FDA Clears Fertility Awareness App for Birth Control
A mobile app for determining a woman’s fertility state on any given day was cleared for marketing in the U.S. as a birth control method.
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A.I. System Developed to Design Entirely New Drugs
A bioinformatics team developed a system combining machine learning and neural networks with large-scale databases to design entirely new drug molecules that meet desired chemical properties and biological activity.
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Technique Assessed for Comparing Effectiveness Between Drugs
An academic-industry research team validated a statistical technique to evaluate the effectiveness of different drugs treating the same disease, without conducting separate head-to-head clinical trials.
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A.I. Drug Discovery Company Gains $32M in Early Funds
A company using genomic databases and artificial intelligence to discover new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases is raising $32 million in its first venture funding round.
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Big Data, A.I. Applied to Precision Medicine for Lung Disease
A medical analytics company and two academic scientists are applying artificial intelligence technologies to discover precise therapies for people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic lung disease.
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Pet Health Ingredients Shown Effective Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Researchers in the U.S. and the Netherlands found ingredients in over-the-counter products to control fleas and ticks in house pets can also help prevent infectious diseases in humans spread by mosquitoes.
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Bloodless Glucose Monitoring Technology in Development
An engineering lab in Canada is developing a system that adapts radar technology to measure blood glucose levels, to eventually replace the blood drop samples now used by people with diabetes.
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Robotics, A.I. Employed for Personal Autism Therapy
An engineering lab at MIT developed techniques for combining robotics with deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to personalize autism therapy.
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Agriculture Group Adapts Satellite Imaging, A.I., Big Data
An international agricultural network is partnering with a private company to boost the group’s capabilities in satellite imaging, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence.