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Unicorn Bio is building the hardware to scale cultivated meat from lab to table

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“Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. Our approach and core conviction is that it is actually easier, and ultimately better, to design new hardware systems aimed to foster the growth around the cells, rather than trying to fit these cells to existing engineering systems.”

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Machine learning is set to speed up the detection of contamination in food factories

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Ensuring that usually entails deploying petri-dish-based microbiological monitoring, hardware and waiting for tests to return from labs. The factories that process our food and beverages (newsflash: no, it doesn’t come straight from a farm) have to be kept very clean, or we’d all get very ill, to be blunt. All rights reserved.

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Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

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Hong Kong-based drug discovery and development company Insilico has secured fresh capital at a time that its CEO described as a “biotech winter.” Insilico uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets and eventually create the drug. while hardware production happened in China.

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Techstars unveils sustainability-focused acceleration program in Paris

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It is then tech and industry agnostic, which means that these companies can be hardware, software but also deeptech, biotech or fintech startups.

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Affect raises a seed round to grow its stimulant abuse recovery service

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There are any number of seed rounds that cross our desks every day, a never-ending march of enterprise software, consumer apps, games, hardware, biotech and sometimes even a space startup. So when Affect’s $1 million seed round from AlleyCorp came to my attention, I wanted to learn a bit more. Let’s hope.

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Activ Surgical raises $45 million Series B round to give surgeons eagle eyes

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The first of those tools is the company’s hardware component, called ActivSight, which allows surgeons to see things that would otherwise be invisible, like blood flow through microscopic vessels inside tissue. ” This machine learning application won’t be rolled out right away.

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NXgenPort aims to detect early signs of infection in cancer patients before symptoms arise

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Once the port is implanted in the chest and the catheter goes through a patient’s heart, the device captures images of blood cells and then compresses the data and sends it to the cloud, after which it is analyzed via machine learning.