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Q&A: AstraZeneca CIO Cindy Hoots on Covid-19, collaboration — and change

Computerworld Vertical IT

Over the past two years, Swedish-English pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has been at the heart of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing a vaccine and supplying more than 2.5 billion doses to people in 170 countries. To read this article in full, please click here

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Moderna Set to Test Experimental HIV mRNA Vaccine in People

Gizmodo

According to trial registration data, pharmaceutical company Moderna will start a Phase I clinical trial of its HIV vaccine candidate this week, based on the same mRNA platform behind its successful covid-19 vaccine. Perhaps the next best hope for a permanent way to defeat HIV is about to get underway. The trial will… Read more.

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Protein design pioneer David Baker on why sharing code is key to building biotech startups

GeekWire

GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert) The Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington is a startup factory , spinning out companies developing new protein-based therapeutics, industrial enzymes, materials, biosensors and more. billion acquisition of IPD spinout Icosavax, which develops vaccines.

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The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

Vox

But for Gates, philanthropy is the cure for inequality, and business-driven tech and science development will save us from another Covid-19. “I What the designation really pinpointed, said Stevano, was people who did what she calls “social reproduction work.” I am a technophile,” he writes. “As

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

Patents, product specifications, academic publications, market research, news, not to mention social media feeds, all have text as a primary component and the volume of text is constantly growing. It was primarily developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Apply the technology to voice and the pool gets even larger.

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Accelerating Aerospace Organizational Innovation, Speed, and Resilience with Digital Technologies

CIO Business Intelligence

The impact of space technology, on other industries, is wide and vast, and the innovation ripple of research has spurred many high-profile products, including Teflon and CAT scans, as well as many more developments from NASA. According to Verified Market Research , the Global Satellite Communication Market size was valued at USD 65.68

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What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

CIO Business Intelligence

The technology helps adopters in fields as diverse as finance, healthcare, retailing, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing. Study driver behavior to develop better driver assistance technologies and, eventually, autonomous vehicles. Financial services: Develop credit risk models.

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