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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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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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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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EarthOptics helps farmers look deep into the soil for big data insights

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Using high-tech imaging techniques, the company claims to map the physical and chemical composition of fields faster, better, and more cheaply than traditional techniques, and has raised $10M to scale its solution. Machine learning is at the heart of the company’s pair of tools, GroundOwl and C-Mapper (C as in carbon).

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Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

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Insilico uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets and eventually create the drug. Sustainable chemistry, as defined by OECD , is “a scientific concept that seeks to improve the efficiency with which natural resources are used to meet human needs for chemical products and services.”

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