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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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Speeding COVID-19 Drug Discovery with Quantum Dots

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

Molecules on its surface (yellow) allow researchers to attach the viral spike protein (purple), which SARS-CoV-2 depends on to infect human cells. Because SARS-CoV-2 is so highly infectious, basic researchers without access to specially designed biosafety facilities may be limited in their ability to study the virus. That’s now.

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#WhyIScience Q&A: A research scientist uses mass spectrometry to discover how metabolites affect human health

Broad Institute

By Makenzie Kohler October 17, 2023 Credit: Allison Colorado, Broad Communications Amy Deik is a research scientist and lab manager in the Metabolomics Platform. She’d always had an interest in genetics research and moved to Boston in 2002 to work for a genetics-focused startup. What do you do as a research scientist at Broad?

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Hybrid AI-powered computer vision combines physics and big data

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

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

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

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

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

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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Optimizing your ELISA Assays | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

They are often the method of choice to detect or measure specific biological molecules (analytes) for diagnostics, drug discovery or fundamental research. Early beginnings ELISAs were first developed in the mid-1970s independently by two research groups. Many proven applications The use of ELISAs has flourished in the life sciences.

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