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Stämm Biotech raises $17M for its next-generation, 3D printed bioreactor

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Instead, it’s developing a unit that 3D prints a dense network of microchannels that pass cells through the nutrients and oxygen they need. An example of a 3D-printed fluid channel piece. What Stämm has done is essentially cut the tank, stirring and tubes out of the equation entirely. The movement itself acts as the stirring motion.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

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Part of that comes from the need to closely examine every relevant molecule, studying its chemical composition and interactions as well as its physical structure at the atomic level. Discovery and research of new molecular compounds is an expensive business, with development costs exceeding $10 billion per substance in some cases. per drug.”.

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Android’s facial-recognition future could rely on skin detection

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Ingmar Bruder was researching organic photovoltaics—and how to make paint that could absorb sunlight and turn it into electricity—at German chemical giant BASF, when he hit upon an unexpected discovery. When he pointed infrared beams at various objects, they would reflect the beam back in different ways, depending on what they were made of.

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Genesis Therapeutics raises $52M A round for its AI-focused drug discovery mission

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The resulting representation is richer and more complex, a more complete picture of a molecule than you’d get from its chemical formula or a stick diagram showing the different structures and bonds. Because in the world of biochemistry, nothing is as simple as a diagram.

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Generally Intelligent secures cash from OpenAI vets to build capable AI systems

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Called Generally Intelligent , it plans to do this by turning these fundamentals into an array of tasks to be solved and by designing and testing different systems’ ability to learn to solve them in highly complex 3D worlds built by their team. ” Image Credits: Generally Intelligent.

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NVIDIA launches ‘easy button’ for creating gen AI workflows

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The digital human workflow for customer service is aimed at helping enterprises bring their enterprise applications to life with a 3D animated digital human interface powered by NVIDIA Tokkio, an interactive avatar virtual customer service assistant product SDK. NIM microservices.

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Y Combinator’s biotech startups incubate a new generation of therapies and tools

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For instance, a DNA machine could lock onto COVID-19 viruses and then release a chemical signal indicating infection before killing the virus. This Yale-Harvard tie-up comes from a team with quite a bit of experience in stem cell science and tissue engineering, including 3D printing human tissues — which no doubt is part of the approach.

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