February 21, 2020
(Reuters) – Some of the industry’s largest pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N), have developed a blockchain-based system to track prescription drugs across the supply chain to better halt the flow of counterfeit medicines, … Read More
February 20, 2020
(The Guardian) – A powerful antibiotic that kills some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world has been discovered using artificial intelligence. The drug works in a different way to existing antibacterials and is the first of its … Read More
February 20, 2020
(Politico) – Europe wants to keep writing the rules of the digital future, but a reality check may be in the offing instead. The EU’s latest bid for power in the online realm is a five-year digital policy blueprint unveiled … Read More
February 13, 2020
(STAT News) – The Mayo Clinic has taken a step toward making that possible with its announcement that the first venture of the Mayo Clinic Platform will use federated learning as a foundational technology of if its privacy model. Federated … Read More
February 12, 2020
(Vox) – Deducing details of a person’s health through how often they text or when they leave home is called digital phenotyping, and it’s a rapidly growing area of research. Phenotypes, generally speaking, are the traits, like behavior and appearance, … Read More
February 11, 2020
(Vox) – Law enforcement has been using facial recognition for a while. But Clearview’s technology represents a scary step further than anything we’ve seen before, according to reporting from the New York Times. The secretive company says it’s created a … Read More
February 11, 2020
(The Guardian) – The robot helped a specialist surgeon divert thread-like lymphatic vessels, as narrow as 0.3mm, around scar tissue in the patients’ armpits, and connect them to nearby blood vessels. The operation, which requires immense care and precision, is … Read More
February 10, 2020
(Vox) – To battle the novel coronavirus that’s been linked to Wuhan, China, researchers are using artificial intelligence to discover potential treatments, including already-approved drugs and completely new compounds. At the same time, the pneumonia-like illness has only gotten worse. … Read More
February 5, 2020
(New York Post) – Fashion and beauty influencers have been earning fame, and a living, on social media for some time. Now, medical professionals are going on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to get their brands out there, as well as … Read More
February 3, 2020
(Vox) – The British startup Exscientia claims it has developed the first medication created using artificial intelligence that will be clinically tested on humans. The medication, which is meant to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, took less than a year from conception … Read More
