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Madrona leads $60M investment into AI-powered drug discovery company Terray Therapeutics

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based Terray Therapeutics , which combines nanotechnology with artificial intelligence, has raised $60 million in a Series A funding round led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group. Pasadena, Calif.-based

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Biotech giant Moderna will open tech office in Seattle, plans to hire up to 220 workers

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The office will focus on artificial intelligence, cloud-based tools, and other technology applications. But it will also play a big role in growing the company’s capabilities in applying artificial intelligence to biomedical applications, said Miller. (Moderna Photo) Cambridge, Mass.-based

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Novo Nordisk laying off 86 workers as part of lab shutdown in Seattle

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The company will continue to have operations in Seattle focused on digital therapy, data science and artificial intelligence, said the spokesperson. Novo Nordisk currently operates a research and development center in Seattle for diabetes, liver disease and other therapeutic areas.

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Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of the artificial intelligence that the company previously contributed to an industry partnership to develop a COVID-19 search engine for researchers. Bigstock Photo.

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Seattle investment bank that helps buy and sell companies forms new SPAC to target ‘industry 4.0’

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is seen as the fourth industrial revolution, using the building blocks of computing and advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer vision, Internet of Things (“IoT”), gene sequencing, energy storage, and blockchain, to transform the physical, digital and biological worlds,” the firm wrote in a SEC filing.

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Future lift: a concept co-created by Ross Dawson and AI

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Some examples of things that provide future lift include: • Technologies like artificial intelligence and biotechnology that could fundamentally improve health, longevity, and human capabilities. He visualizes it as an upward lift or force that elevates the trajectory of the future.

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The voters will see you now: The finalists for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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The category highlights pioneering health, life science, biotechnology or medical breakthroughs that hold great promise for bettering our lives or improving the healthcare system. Adaptive Biotechnologies. So it’s little wonder that there’s stiff competition for the 2021 GeekWire Health Innovation of the Year.