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Stability AI backs effort to bring machine learning to biomed

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Called OpenBioML , the endeavor’s first projects will focus on machine learning-based approaches to DNA sequencing, protein folding and computational biochemistry. Stability AI’s ethically questionable decisions to date aside, machine learning in medicine is a minefield. Predicting protein structures.

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Immunai raises $60M as it expands from improving immune therapies to discovering new ones, too

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Immunai’s approach to developing new insights around the human immune system uses a ‘multi-omic’ approach – essentially layering analysis of different types of biological data, including a cell’s genome, microbiome, epigenome (a genome’s chemical instruction set) and more.

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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

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With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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Molecule.one grows its drug synthesis AI platform with a $4.6M seed round

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Its machine learning systems predict the best ways to synthesize potentially valuable molecules, a crucial part of creating new drugs and treatments. The company leverages machine learning and a large body of knowledge about chemical reactions to create these processes, though as CSO Stanis? .

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The era of software-defined battery startups is here

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Designing and manufacturing pouches, slabs or cylinders filled with volatile chemicals that are capable of recharging ever more quickly is far from easy. Enter artificial intelligence. “Batteries are hard,” an expert once said. He wasn’t kidding. It gets even harder when you consider the realm of possibilities.

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Profet AI helps manufacturers build prediction models and industrial AI software

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Profet AI , a Taiwanese startup that makes auto machine learning software for manufacturers, announced today it has raised $5.6 Profet AI’s software lets users build prediction models and industrial AI apps for production and digitalization, even if they only have basic knowledge of machine learning.

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Synthetic DNA startup Catalog partners with Seagate for its DNA-based data storage platform

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While a traditional microprocessor processes binary code, Seagate’s chip has tiny reservoirs that process small amounts of synthetic DNA in liquid form; liquid from one reservoir on the chip can be processed with liquid from another reservoir to produce a chemical reaction.

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