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Stanford University’s Innovative Medicines Accelerator and Intonation Research Laboratories form a collaboration to fight cancerous neuroendocrine tumors

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Stanford University’s Innovative Medicines Accelerator (IMA) and Intonation Research Laboratories (Intonation) have formed a collaboration to develop treatments that target cancerous neuroendocrine tumors, or tumors that form from hormone-releasing cells.

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Hybrid AI-powered computer vision combines physics and big data

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Researchers from UCLA and the United States Army Research Laboratory have laid out a new approach to enhance artificial intelligence-powered computer vision technologies by adding physics-based awareness to data-driven techniques.

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Johns Hopkins APL creates autonomy safety net for AFWERX Autonomy Prime Program

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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, is equipping AFWERX — a technology directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force — with capabilities to quickly and safely test autonomous vehicles in complex, interactive environments.

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University of Arkansas Joins U.S. Army Pathfinder Program

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Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory and executed by the Civil-Military Innovation Institute. The University of Arkansas has become the latest university to join the Army Pathfinder Program, an initiative overseen by the U.S.

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Speeding COVID-19 Drug Discovery with Quantum Dots

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In work published in the journal ACS Nano , a team that included Kirill Gorshkov, NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Rockville, MD, along with Eunkeu Oh and Mason Wolak, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, D.C.) That’s not science fiction.

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8 Frequently Asked Questions About Genetic Testing in Clinical Trials

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What is the difference between a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-approved laboratory vs a research laboratory? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulates all clinical laboratory testing performed on human samples in the US through CLIA.

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Optimizing your ELISA Assays | BMG LABTECH

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1,2 Anton Schuurs and Bauke van Weemen at the research laboratories of NV Organon, Oss, the Netherlands developed a similar technique which was also published in 1971. Peter Perlman and Eva Engvall at Stockholm University in Sweden developed an ELISA method as a tool for quantifying soluble antigens which was published in 1971.

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