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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. Terray’s chips are fit with millions of molecules that can be used for drug-target screening, with the resulting data fed into machine learning models.

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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.

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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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Protein design to precision health: Vote 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. Last year’s winner was Truveta, which is aggregating data across multiple healthcare systems to generate insights into health and biomedical research.

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GREEN500 Supercomputer Powering Robot Scientists and Transformational Machine Learning

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What’s impressive is how the Wilkes-3 performs both quickly and efficiently, reducing energy use while supporting simulations, AI, and data analytics for research across the university and the UK. Data analytics is the key to unlocking the most value you can extract from data across your organization.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Nitin Sood , chief commercial officer of the MRD business at Adaptive Biotechnologies, is departing. based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022.