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Seattle-based Icosavax, which is developing COVID-19 vaccines, files for IPO 4 years after launch

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Icosavax creates virus-like particles with technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. Icosavax filed a clinical trial application in Belgium in June for its RSV candidate and plans to initiate trials later this year, according to a company filing with the U.S. Icosavax Photo).

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

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NLP applications Machine translation is a powerful NLP application, but search is the most used. Transformer models take applications such as language translation and chatbots to a new level. Licensed by MIT, SpaCy was made with high-level data science in mind and allows deep data mining. Amazon Comprehend.

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Merck Life Sciences banks on RPA to streamline regulatory compliance

CIO Business Intelligence

The pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated one, especially for multinationals doing business across the globe. Merck Life Sciences, a leading chemical and pharmaceutical company, with 60,000 employees working across 66 countries, was one of them. Dependency on human resources is both time-consuming and fraught with errors.

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Seattle startup TwinStrand raises $50M to expand tech that identifies rare genetic mutants

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Real-world applications: The technology can be used for early cancer detection, searching for cancer cells that survive despite treatment, and monitoring for cancer recurrence. The startup is planning similar licensing deals with other companies that will be announced later this year, Salk said.

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Archon Biosciences emerges from stealth with $20M to create tiny ‘Antibody Cages’

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We can make two drugs for two different applications, and make it easier to do both.” They licensed the AbC technology from UW and incorporated Archon Biosciences in 2023. Taking aim at cancer Archon is already focusing in on its first therapeutic applications, most likely including cancer treatment. ” .

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It’s not your data. It’s how you use it. Unlock the power of data & build foundations of a data driven organisation

CIO Business Intelligence

It argues that enterprises need to adopt a three-step process that has traditionally required three distinct products (historically from three separate vendors) to execute analytics effectively and to: ingest and integrate data from enterprise applications, typically using extract, transform and load (ETL) tools. Pharmaceutical research.

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Mars Society gains foothold in AI, robotics and biotechnology to clear a path to space

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Varda has been working on a space-based manufacturing system that processes materials in orbit to produce pharmaceuticals, with the finished products shipped back down to Earth. “Those inventions — as it were, IP as exports from Mars — will be one of the main economic supports of the Mars city-state,” Zubrin said.