The Increasing Potential of Virtual Reality in Drug Design

Using virtual reality (VR) for manipulating 3D models of molecules in the context of drug design is an emerging technological …

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Virtual Immunostaining for Digital Pathology

Owkin is a French-American startup, backed by Google Ventures among others, that deploys Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Federated Learning for …

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[Interview] Advancing Off-the-shelf Cellular Medicines to Fight COVID-19

Mesoblast Limited (Nasdaq:MESO; ASX:MSB), a world leader in developing allogeneic (off-the-shelf) cellular medicines, just announced that the first COVID-19 infected …

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11 Inspiring Women Advancing Artificial Intelligence In Life Sciences

In this post, we decided to highlight eleven entrepreneurial women, leading the way in applying advanced computational technologies, such as …

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[Interview] Hacking Metabolomics With AI To Improve Clinical Research

Personalized medicine has become a paradigm-shifting trend in healthcare - the hegemony of  “one-size-fits-all” drugs is increasingly challenged by novel innovative …

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[Interview] Building Canada’s Life Sciences Community and Thinking Global

Canada has a firm place in the global life sciences ecosystem, being the tenth largest market for pharmaceutical sales, and …

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[Interview] Shaping European Life Sciences with AI

There is a great deal of hype and a lot of misconceptions among life science experts as to how AI …

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[Interview] Using Generative AI to Rapidly Identify Novel Therapies for COVID-19

Generative models have become one of the hottest areas in de-novo molecular design over just several years, basically revolutionizing our …

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Reporting First Direct Sequence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA

The Lachlan Coin and Sebastian Duchene teams and collaborators in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Australia, …

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Synonymous Mutations Can Affect Protein Folding And Impair Cellular Fitness

Synonymous codon substitutions affect the mRNA coding sequence, but the encoded amino acid sequence remains unchanged. Therefore, ostensibly these substitutions …

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COVID-19 Forcing You To Go Digital? You’re Missing A Trick

Moments of crisis always mean change. In these times, it’s tempting to reach for quotes from leaders who successfully navigated through turbulent …

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Coronavirus - My Secret Hope

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause disease in animals and humans. They were discovered as a cause …

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