Thousands of genetic markers have already been robustly associated with complex human traits, such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, obesity, or height. To discover these associations, researchers need to compare the genomes ...
Jan 13, 2021
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Researchers have developed a free, open-source toolkit that allows laboratories in developing countries to produce their own tools for COVID-19 research and diagnosis, without relying on an increasingly fractured global supply ...
Dec 08, 2020
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A new open source, cloud-based tool called IDseq can rapidly detect, identify and track emerging pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2. It can identify pathogens before there is an available complete genome sequence, and can therefore ...
Oct 15, 2020
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In 2015, a team of specialists in modeling disease outbreaks got together with educators to create Operation Outbreak, an educational platform and simulation intended to teach high school and college students the fundamentals ...
Sep 03, 2020
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Facebook has announced on its blog that its AI research team has been working with radiologists at NYU Langone Health to create an AI system that can speed up MRI machines. A paper written by the team describing the new technology ...
An app that allows companies to optimise social distancing measures on public transport has been created by a group of Cardiff University students.
Aug 05, 2020
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During lockdown, travel restrictions caused car and public transport use to plummet across the UK. On April 12 2020, the number of daily trips by car fell to 22%, compared to a typical day the year before. Public transport ...
Jul 16, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a serious issue for doctors and nurses assessing a patient's heart and lungs with a traditional stethoscope.
Jun 16, 2020
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Employers across the country can advance reopening efforts with technology developed by the University of Rochester to check employees for potential COVID-19 symptoms before they report to work each day.
Jun 15, 2020
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A research team from Valencia's Polytechnic University (UPV), from the CVBLab, has developed a predictive artificial intelligence model that can tell the difference between healthy patients, those who are ill with pneumonia ...
May 05, 2020
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