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Transforming Drug Discovery Using AI and Automation
The COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled a pressing issue – the need to develop effective drugs rapidly. But developing a new drug is easier said than done. Technologies such as microfluidics, robotics and the use of artificial intelligence, combined with automated data analysis, can expedite the drug development and approval process, helping make therapies available to patients more quickly.
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Taken on Trust: Ensuring Safe, Secure Access to Health Data for Research
Patient data is one of our most valuable resources for understanding health and tackling disease. However, we must ensure that sensitive patient data is kept safe and secure while it’s being used for research. In this article, Health Data Research UK’s chief technology expert, Gerry Reilly, discusses the key development in health data research security: Trusted Research Environments.
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AI Bridges Multiple Sclerosis Patients to Relevant Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are a significant milestone in the development of innovative drugs and therapies for people diagnosed with different medical conditions including multiple sclerosis (MS). In this article, we examine how technology can make it easier for people to find and enroll on clinical trials.
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What's the Physiological Relevance? A Profile of Oded Rechavi
A profile piece exploring the life and career of the molecular biologist Professor Oded Rechavi.
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Calculating a Least Squares Regression Line: Equation, Example, Explanation
Being able to make conclusions about data trends is one of the most important steps in both business and science. Through the magic of least sums regression, and with a few simple equations, we can calculate a predictive model that can let us estimate our data and give us much more power over it. If you want a simple explanation of how to calculate and draw a line of best fit through your data, read on!
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Connectivity, Data and Their Role in Lateral Flow Diagnostics
This article takes a look at how people's expectations of connectivity in their everyday lives should inform how we approach medical diagnostic devices, and how connected, data-gathering tests could transform diagnostics, using the current pandemic as an example.
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Does AI Have a Home in the Lab?
In this article, Gerald Law, chief executive at Innovation DB, explains why human intelligence can never be entirely replaced by artificial intelligence in the laboratory environment.
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Top Tips for Selecting a Custom Manufacturing Partner
With life science industries facing increased competition, global regulatory demands, and pressure to shorten time to market, outsourcing part – or all – manufacturing is becoming increasingly prevalent. But what should be considered in choosing such a custom or contract manufacturing partner?
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The Markram Interviews Part Three: The Blue Brain Project
In the final part of our exclusive interview series with Blue Brain Project Founder and Director Professor Henry Markram, we discuss the goals that he has strived towards over the last 15 years – simulating the mouse, and eventually human, brain. We discuss the Blue Brain Project’s achievements and setbacks and Markram explains what he feels are the Project’s most surprising findings. Finally, we look towards the future – when will we have simulated the human brain?
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The Markram Interviews Part Two: Simulations and Experiments – How Can They Work Together?
In the second of our exclusive three-part interview series with Blue Brain Project Founder and Director Professor Henry Markram, we discuss how brain simulations can benefit neuroscience.
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