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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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Cellino is using AI and machine learning to scale production of stem cell therapies

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technology, machine learning, hardware, software — and yes, lasers! Founded by a team whose backgrounds include physics, stem cell biology, and machine learning, Cellino operates in the regenerative medicine industry. — could eventually democratize access to cell therapies.

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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. It’s been tested in a clinical trial on 70 patients at the University of Texas Health Science Center and the University of Buffalo.

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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. The startup is going into animal testing this year, and is starting with swine.

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Eko expands algorithmic heart problem detection and lands $30M Series C extension

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Eko’s hardware consists of digital stethoscopes that boast a few basic bells and whistles, like noise-canceling technology or the ability to record and visualize heartbeats. Eko has been working toward developing machine learning-based analysis capability. It’s not exactly a “machine learning brain” yet.

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Agritech startups, innovations & facts

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These include food testing devices, food freshness sensors and shelf life enhancement technology to name a few. The system combines a piece of hardware that joins to field equipment and automates the amount and timing of field treatments. SeeTree develops and offers a machine learning based data-driven solutions for orchard growers.