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K Health expands into virtual childcare and raises $132 million at a $1.5 billion valuation

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K Health , the virtual healthcare provider that uses machine learning to lower the cost of care by providing the bulk of the company’s health assessments, is launching new tools for childcare on the heels of raising cash that values the company at $1.5 In practice, patients get what they pay for.

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Cape Privacy announces $20M Series A to help companies securely share data

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. “We have really focused our efforts on encrypted learning, which is really the core technology, which was fundamental to allowing the multi-party compute capabilities between two organizations or two departments to work and build machine learning models on encrypted data,” Wijesinghe told me.

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How WhiteLab Genomics is using AI to aid gene and cell therapy development

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And this is where WhiteLab Genomics enters the fray, with a computational approach that meshes machine learning and deep learning techniques to process multiple scientific hypotheses at once, looking at different genetic variants “to predict the best molecular design for the therapy” based on the objectives.

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Ultima Genomics claims $100 full genome sequencing after stealth $600M raise

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The appetite for genomic data continues to rise in the field of biotech and pharmaceutical research, but cost is still a factor — even sequencing a full genome now costs as little as $1,000. The third advance involves machine learning to accelerate the process of turning optical data (the CD-style scanning signal) into usable data.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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Meet the 14 companies launching out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

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Andiamo uses machine learning, 3D simulation and 3D printing to create custome braces for children with cerebral palsy, bringing down the cost and improving outcomes for clinicians, patients and families alike. So without any further ado, here are the startups graduating out of the summer 2021 ERA class. departments.

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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. AI drug discovery relies on a massive amount of investment in so-called contract research organizations (CROs), which provide support to pharmaceutical or medical device companies in the form of outsourcing.

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