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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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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.

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Ultima Genomics claims $100 full genome sequencing after stealth $600M raise

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The appetite for genomic data continues to rise in the field of biotech and pharmaceutical research, but cost is still a factor — even sequencing a full genome now costs as little as $1,000. The third advance involves machine learning to accelerate the process of turning optical data (the CD-style scanning signal) into usable data.

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Precision Neuroscience is making brain implants safer, smarter and reversible

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“It’s not just the array, but the software — the sophistication of machine learning is a must have to drive really powerful BCI. And you can’t just build the gadget — it needs to be distributed, supported, documented, etc. “And then you have to take it through the FDA regulatory process.”

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Agritech startups, innovations & facts

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The system combines a piece of hardware that joins to field equipment and automates the amount and timing of field treatments. To date, the company’s bot has learned how to pick tomatoes, but Root AI’s founder asserts that the hardware can be used for a variety of crops. Weather forecasts. Automated irrigation.

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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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Stability AI backs effort to bring machine learning to biomed

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Stability AI , the venture-backed startup behind the text-to-image AI system Stable Diffusion, is funding a wide-ranging effort to apply AI to the frontiers of biotech. Called OpenBioML , the endeavor’s first projects will focus on machine learning-based approaches to DNA sequencing, protein folding and computational biochemistry.