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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

He started to imagine how the deadly and contagious disease, if confirmed, might spread to half the city’s population. Eight of the 20 patients died, but the spread of the disease in Nigeria stopped there. Blood and urine samples from the man were waiting for Happi in his lab. Happi felt chilled. They called the idea Sentinel.

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Big data – charting a new path to drug discovery and development

Drug Discovery World

In addition, the vast complexity of human disease often means we need a better understanding of all the variables involved in a specific process. These different fundamental approaches (rules-based versus pattern recognition) to building these systems provide multiple opportunities to interject them into disease diagnostics and treatments.

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Article FDA Thank You Leaders at FDA share highlights and updates for drugs and biologics at RAPS Convergence

Agency IQ

Joneckis said that CBER has “some limited uses that we have seen in external submissions, mostly in the bioinformatics area,” but not as many as CDER. Regarding artificial intelligence (AI), an important topic at RAPS Convergence, the two centers discussed external and internal use cases.

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A scientist devotes her career to tackling inequity in genomics

Broad Institute

Credit: Allison Colorado, Broad Communications Arriving in the Bay Area after a childhood in increasingly diverse surroundings, Martin became acutely aware of health disparities and the profound differences in disease prevalence among different populations. I wanted to know how I could have any impact on studying genetic diversity.”

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Synthetic biology tools advancing and accelerating drug discovery efforts

Drug Discovery World

It has made its way into almost every aspect of drug discovery, whether it’s exploring basic biology, modelling diseases, identifying and validating targets, or performing drug screens. . A story-teller at heart, Ramanathan also delivers science communication workshops. . . . . .

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