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

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(NASA Photo / Dominic Hart) The Mars Society says it’s making progress on launching a startup incubator in the Seattle area, with artificial intelligence and biotech as its first targets. To make a profit, yes, but also to support the development of technologies needed to sustain settlements on the Red Planet.

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Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of the artificial intelligence that the company previously contributed to an industry partnership to develop a COVID-19 search engine for researchers.

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University of Washington’s David Baker wins Nobel Prize for solving protein puzzles

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Baker and his colleagues developed an early protein design tool and made the code available through a consortium called Rosetta Commons. The advent of artificial intelligence tools has accelerated the pace of protein structure prediction — with the Institute of Protein Design and DeepMind recognized as the world’s leaders.

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Microsoft gives $5M to UW Medicine to use AI to accelerate response to next pandemic

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The funding will be used to find new ways to apply artificial intelligence to protein design. That’s one of the goals of a $5 million gift from Microsoft to the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Eric Horvitz, Microsoft chief scientific officer. Microsoft Photo).

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The voters will see you now: The finalists for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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The category highlights pioneering health, life science, biotechnology or medical breakthroughs that hold great promise for bettering our lives or improving the healthcare system. Adaptive Biotechnologies. The company developed a first-of-its kind diagnostic tool called T-Detect COVID. Create your own user feedback survey.

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Univ. of Washington AI protein folding discovery wins ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ award from Science

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Science magazine has revealed its breakthrough of the year: Artificial intelligence discoveries that predict how proteins fold, forged by researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design and Alphabet’s DeepMind. UW IPD Photo). It is truly protein structure for all,” said Thorp.

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Novo Nordisk laying off 86 workers as part of lab shutdown in Seattle

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Novo Nordisk currently operates a research and development center in Seattle for diabetes, liver disease and other therapeutic areas. The company will continue to have operations in Seattle focused on digital therapy, data science and artificial intelligence, said the spokesperson.