Focus:
AI
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27 March 2019
Blue Brain Project clarifies neurons’ structure and role in disease
Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)’s Blue Brain Project has used a mathematical algorithm to distinguish the shape and structures of pyramidal cells.
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25 March 2019
How government policy has shaped China’s pharma phenomenon
After many decades of growth, China is now the second largest global pharmaceutical market. Since the Chinese state closely controls the country’s economy, it’s unsurprising that government reforms have been...
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22 March 2019
Genomics England signs immunotherapy partnership with CCG
NHS England spin-out Genomics England and artificial intelligence (AI)-focused Cambridge Cancer Genomics (CCG.ai) have announced they have entered into an immunology partnership.
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21 March 2019
Celgene partners with AI drug discovery startup to make drug trials shorter
Biotechnology company Celgene has partnered with Exscientia to shorten the time it takes to get new treatments to market using AI drug discovery.
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21 March 2019
Celgene signs $25m AI drug discovery partnership with Exscientia
Oxford-based artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery company Exscientia has announced it has entered into three-year partnership with Celgene for an initial upfront payment of $25m.
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20 March 2019
Ono and twoXAR form AI-based drug discovery alliance
Ono Pharmaceutical has partnered with twoXAR, an AI-driven biopharmaceutical firm, to discover and develop new treatments for neurological disease.
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19 March 2019
Is a robot about to steal my job?
Future of Work 2019: The pace of change is certainly faster than the industrial revolution, but changes are likely to occur over 20 to 40 years.
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19 March 2019
Pistoia Alliance Conference: exploring the importance of data to pharma
Non-profit members' organisation The Pistoia Alliance held its European Conference in London in mid-March. Although there were various sub-themes of the conference, the central tenet was "healthcare data; that data...
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8 March 2019
Machine learning model classifies lung cancer slides in under a minute
Researchers have developed a machine learning model that can classify different types of lung cancer in less than a minute.
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28 February 2019
AI datathon helps repurpose five new candidates for chronic pancreatitis
An artificial intelligence (AI) datathon has led to the identification of five new drug candidates, previously developed to treat other conditions, for chronic pancreatitis, which are now being considered for...