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AARP Innovation Labs takes a holistic approach to age-tech at CES

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AARP Innovation Labs, the incubator program, highlights the many facets of aging in its CES’ virtual presentation with a roster of startups that were divided into five groups: community, clinic, wellness, financial services and housing. AARP Innovation addresses that problem with its selection of “community” startups.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

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And of course, funding in health tech is generally low. One way Adeseun reckons that might happen is if B2B e-commerce platforms in retail take an interest in pharmaceutical and health-based products. 60% said theirs was on quality, while 43% of innovators claimed an effect in lowering pharmaceutical and drug prices.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

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Innovations such as the self-attention mechanism and multi-head attention enable these models to better weigh the importance of various parts of the input, and to process those parts in parallel rather than sequentially. The course costs $94.99, which includes a certificate of completion. It consists of 11.5

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Gen AI: Should you build or buy?

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Of course, gen AI is no panacea. In a pharmaceutical company, AI can accelerate drug development through the identification of key proteins, or turbocharge drug design by speeding up the ability to generate complex molecular structures. For more insights about innovating with AI, visit The Works. Generative AI

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Regeneron turns to IT to accelerate drug discovery

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For pharmaceutical companies in the digital era, intense pressure to achieve medical miracles falls as much on the shoulders of CIOs as on lead scientists. When Bob McCowan was promoted to CIO at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in 2018, he had previously run the data center infrastructure for the $81.5

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4 Companies With Jaw-Dropping Innovation Case Studies

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These innovation case studies will uncover a secret weapon that your organization might not be leveraging to its fullest! The collective creativity from this innovation ecosystem is a secret weapon that they’re not leveraging, which translates to missed opportunities and lost value. Then, of course, we saw many ideas.

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

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” Of course it’s not like these companies with big money are just buying stuff off the shelf. But bioreactors were only very recently only found in biotech and pharmaceutical laboratories and aren’t exactly designed for easy operation and customization. Innovation is necessary to make even the smallest impact.

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