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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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Excerpt from the Press Release: EXTON, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Immunome, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMNM), a biopharmaceutical company that utilizes its human memory B cell platform to discover and develop first-in-class antibody therapeutics, announced today that its discovery engine has isolated potent antibodies capable of neutralizing several SARS-CoV-2 variants, including the South African Variant (B.1.351), in pseudovirus testing. This…
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