Tag: mathematics
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Robot Designed to Grow into Shapes, Spaces
Engineering researchers created a new type of robot that grows to extend its form into spaces like a vine, rather than move to different locations.
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Start-Up Building Mobile Apps Combining DNA, Lifestyle
A new enterprise in California is creating smartphone apps that provide lifestyle advice based on DNA analysis and activity tracking.
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Start-Up Applying Artificial Intelligence to New Drug Uses
A new enterprise is being formed to apply artificial intelligence to connect drugs in development to treatments for rare diseases and other unmet medical needs.
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Smartphone Data Reveal Physical Activity Worldwide
A data science team tapped into smartphones of more than 717,000 people worldwide to capture the number of steps they take each day as an indicator of physical activity.
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Feasibility, Safety Shown for Personal Tumor Vaccine
A pilot study among individuals with a form of skin cancer shows a vaccine aiming at proteins specific to a person’s tumor is safe and can generate a complex immune response attacking the tumor.
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Glaxo Using Artificial Intelligence for Drug Discovery
Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is hiring a company that applies artificial intelligence for drug discovery and design to identify new small-molecule compounds for up to 10 disease targets.
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Start-Up to Offer Neuro Disorder Speech Analytics App
A start-up enterprise in Germany is commercializing a software app to detect early signs of cognitive decline, found in dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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Preclinical Data Show Promise for Diabetic Eye Drug
Early evidence shows a drug designed as eye drops to treat diabetic macular edema, an eye disease in people with diabetes, permeates the entire eye, including the retina.
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Algorithm Quickly Customizes Walking Exoskeleton
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh wrote and tested an algorithm for exoskeletons that customize the devices to a person’s walking pattern in about an hour.
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Computer-Designed Antibodies Target Alzheimer’s Proteins
Researchers in Europe designed antibodies, like those in the immune system, to attack protein deposits in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease.