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Two Cancer-Fighting Startups Gain a Foothold in AWS
The cloud is a natural place for startups that have large computing and data storage needs but also have uncertain futures. For two startups aiming to stop cancer, including Lyell Immunopharma and Hurone AI, the public c Read more…
Know Your Virome? The Reason Why AI Is Helping Our Health
In 1901, people discovered the first virus that infects humans: yellow fever. Since then, scientists have discovered numerous novel viruses and have estimated that there are 10 nonillion (1031 ) pathogens on planet Earth Read more…
Why AI Alone Won’t Solve Drug Discovery
Verseon is an AI-powered drug company--in theory, anyway. The Bay Area startup does use machine learning to help predict which combination of proteins and drug-like molecules will yield novel compounds to test in the lab Read more…
Data Mesh: What’s In It For The Business?
Chief Data Officers view their company’s business strategy through a data-tinted lens. As a CDO, I was focused on delivering data-driven business outcomes (value) through a sustainable data foundation (culture and gove Read more…
News In Brief
Research Platform Iris.ai Awarded $15M by European Innovation Council
Iris.ai, the provider of a generative AI engine for scientific text understanding, announced it has been selected by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to receive grants and funding in a highly competitive selection p Read more…
ClearML Announces General Availability for Enterprise
ClearML, a unified MLOps platform, has announced the general availability of ClearML for enterprise customers. The platform was previously offered as invite-only to a select group of customers but is now broadly avail Read more…
Pecan AI Leaps Over the Skills Gap to Enable Data Science On Demand
As the big data analytics train keeps rolling on, there are still kinks to work out when implementing it in the business world. Building and maintaining a big data infrastructure capable of quickly turning large data set Read more…
DataRobot Introduces Expanded AI Cloud Capabilities and Tools
At its AIX 2022 conference this week, DataRobot announced new products and enhancements for its AI Cloud platform for data scientists, business users, MLOps, and DevOps. DataRobot says its AI Cloud can centralize the Read more…
Data Integrity Firm Highlights High-Risk Wildfire Areas in Texas
Increasingly brutal and early wildfire seasons have regularly devastated arid regions of the United States, annually burning millions of acres of land and causing tens of billions of dollars in damage. Predicting these a Read more…
This Just In
SANTA CLARA, Calif. Jan. 31, 2023 — Quobyte Inc. today announced that the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology will use its technology to meet the exponentially growing data demands of its production IT system. Read more…
Dec. 1, 2022 — Alzheimer’s disease has always had its puzzles and contradictions. For Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researcher Vladislav Petyuk, whose research on the progressive, age-related disease spans over a decade, some of the struggles have come from studies where “we can only connect the dots a pair at a time.”
Petyuk’s research touches multiple areas in biological and computational science at PNNL. Read more…
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2022 — Dengue fever is one of the most common and rapidly spreading vector-borne viral diseases, with major public health and economic consequences, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. Read more…
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 — HealthTech venture firm Eckuity has invested in Sonrai Analytics, a Northern Irish innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) data discovery that accelerates biomarker discovery, development and deployment for biotech and pharma organizations. Read more…
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 – VAST Data today announced that the French medical biology laboratory specializing in genomic medicine, SeqOIA (Sequencing Omics Information Analysis Cooperative Health Group), has selected VAST’s all-flash Universal Storage data platform to accelerate and optimize the analysis of genetics data for medical diagnostics. Read more…