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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. Organization Size: Medium. Name: Allison Nassour. Title: Social Media Manager.

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Deep sea craft filmed unprecedented footage of a colossal squid

Mashable Tech

The implications of knowing are incalculable, particularly as deep sea mineral prospectors prepare to run tank-like industrial equipment across parts of the seafloor. Scientists want to shine a light — literally and figuratively — on what's down there.

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Massive Foundation Model for Biomolecular Sciences Now Available via NVIDIA BioNeMo

NVIDIA AI Blog

Its scientists are focused on disease areas including cancer, immune dysfunction and neurodegeneration. For example, researchers from Stanford and the Arc Institute found that in tests with BRCA1, a gene associated with breast cancer, Evo 2 could predict with 90% accuracy whether previously unrecognized mutations would affect gene function.

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8 ways startups are changing the healthcare industry

The Next Web

Few industries stand to gain more from recent innovations in technology (and certain federal legislation) than healthcare. Now, after the ruling, the industry is poised to explode, and NextGxDx is looking to capitalize on the genetic stampede by providing a gene test marketplace; think of it as an Amazon Marketplace for gene testing.

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NVIDIA CEO Awarded for Advancing Precision Medicine With Accelerated Computing, AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

For nearly two decades, NVIDIA has advanced computing in healthcare working with researchers and industry leaders to build instruments that enable scientists to better understand life sciences, medical imaging and genomics. Its Luminary award recognizes people transforming healthcare by advancing precision medicine in the clinic.

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Senti Bio raises $105 million for its new programmable biology platform and cancer therapies

TechCrunch

Senti Biosciences , a company developing cancer therapies using a new programmable biology platform, said it has raised $105 million in a new round of financing led by the venture arm of life sciences giant Bayer. “ When the company was started it was a bag of tools and the know-how on how to use them,” Lu said. “We

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Isabl’s rapid whole-genome analysis opens the playbook for cancer treatment

TechCrunch

Every cancer is unique because every person is unique, and one of the most important weapons in any cancer battle is information. Isabl offers that in abundance through rapid sequencing of cancer cells’ entire genomes, potentially showing which therapies will and won’t be effective within days.

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