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Sequoia India’s Surge backs healthtech startup RedBrick AI in $4.6M funding

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Artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous in clinical diagnosis. “We see ourselves building the foundational layer of artificial intelligence in healthcare. For annotating complex 3D medical images, it also has semi-automated tools. Healthtech startup RedBrick AI has raised $4.6

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Similarly, clothing brand Under Armour recently produced an ad that used AI-generated 3D models of the British boxer Anthony Joshua, based on videos they took of him in the past. Gen AI helps scientists develop new proteins Another interesting set of use cases can be found, for the time being, in biotech.

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Genesis Therapeutics raises $52M A round for its AI-focused drug discovery mission

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Sifting through the trillions of molecules out there that might have powerful medicinal effects is a daunting task, but the solution biotech has found is to work smarter, not harder. Machine learning has, of course, accelerated work in many fields, biochemistry among them, but he felt that the potential of the technology had not been tapped.

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Charm Therapeutics applies AI to complex protein interactions, locking down $50M A round

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The world of AI-powered drug discovery keeps expanding as the capabilities of machine learning grow. “This is done most easily when one knows how exactly these drugs bind to the protein (the exact 3D shape of the ligand bound to the disease-causing protein). All it takes is one hit and they’re laughing.

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Prellis Biologics raises $14.5M, debuts a ‘human immune system’ in a dish

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Prellis Biologics , a company developing the tools to create 3D-printed organs, announced a $14.5 Up until this point, Prellis has focused on 3D printing vascular scaffolds that would allow companies to grow healthy and oxygenated human organs (or miniature versions, called organoids) for drug testing, and eventually transplant.

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With new funding, Atomic AI envisions RNA as the next frontier in drug discovery

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The biotech industry is experiencing a rush of AI-powered tools for many aspects of the complex drug discovery process. A rotating 3D model of an RNA strand structure predicted by PARSE. And combined with other machine learning work, we have been able to dramatically improve both the speed and accuracy from the paper.”

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed This Year

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KoBold Metals ties two hot trends together for investors — artificial intelligence and alternative energy sources. Building a better tree Climate biotech firm Living Carbon also made some headlines way back in January when it raised a $21 million Series A led by Temasek. The cash valued the climate-tech startup at $1.15

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