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Excerpt from the Article: The East Coast Institute for Clinical Research (ECIR) is a site network with five offices throughout the Northeast Florida and Georgia conducting clinical trials across several therapeutic areas. Rebecca Goldfaden, VP of clinical operations for ECIR, has worked with more than 80 sponsor companies during her career in clinical research. She…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VeriSIM Life has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)grant for $255,908 to conduct research and development (R&D) work onrapid repurposing and translation of approved and investigational drugs for COVID-19 using its patented artificial intelligence (AI) driven biosimulation platform, BIOiSIM. VeriSIM Life has…
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Excerpt from the Article: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has revised its existing lung cancer screening recommendations with two major changes – its new guidance lowers screening age and incorporates patients with a shorter smoking history. Published today in JAMA, the new recommendation now calls for patients between ages 50 and 80 who…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — GT Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: GTBP), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of its disruptive, target-directed Natural Killer (NK) cell engager immunotherapy protein biologic platform technology: TriKE™ for cancer and infectious diseases, today announced the addition of a new…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: PRINCETON, N.J., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Soligenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is an unmet medical need, announced today publication of pre-clinical immunogenicity studies for CiVax™ (heat stable COVID-19 vaccine program) demonstrating rapid-onset,…
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Excerpt from the Article: It’s rare for current events to inform the work of scientists as acutely as during a pandemic. In February 2020, a team of scientists from the international initiative of the Human Cell Atlas, including scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, sifted through a dataset on healthy human cells…
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Excerpt from the Article: Implementing a radiomics-based machine learning algorithm allows CT colonography to differentiate between benign and pre-cancerous polyps with high sensitivity and specificity. Applying a machine-based learning algorithm to images captured with CT colonography makes it possible for radiologists to differentiate between benign and pre-malignant colorectal polyps. In industrialized countries across the globe,…
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Excerpt from the Article: Radiologists can classify breast lesions more accurately if they use artificial intelligence algorithms fueled by 4D data captured with dynamic contrasted-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), new research has found. In a study published on Feb. 24 in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, investigators from the University of Chicago outlined their method for fusing the 4D…
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Excerpt from the Article: Using automated machine learning to calculate the right ventricle/left ventricle (RV/LV) ratio can help radiologists identify patients who have pulmonary hypertension (PH) and would benefit from being referred to a specialist. In a presentation during the 2021 European Congress of Radiology annual meeting, Pia Charters from Royal United Hospital Bath NHS…
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Excerpt from the Article: As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second year, scientists are still working to understand how the SARS-CoV-2 strain evolved, and how it became so much more dangerous than other coronaviruses, which humans have been living alongside for millennia. Virologists and epidemiologists worldwide have speculated for months that a protein called ORF8…
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