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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. OpenFold Image) The protein design field continued to accelerate in 2022 with the honing of artificial intelligence tools and the development of new ones.

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Microsoft gives $5M to UW Medicine to use AI to accelerate response to next pandemic

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Scientists are using software to design new biomolecules that treat cancer and block viral infection. The funding will be used to find new ways to apply artificial intelligence to protein design. Photo by Ian Haydon, UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design.). Eric Horvitz, Microsoft chief scientific officer. Microsoft Photo).

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

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based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database.

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GREEN500 Supercomputer Powering Robot Scientists and Transformational Machine Learning

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The work, led by Professor Ross King from the University of Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, teaches computers to learn more like how humans do—by building on what’s been learned in the past. . Working with research papers on breast cancer cell biology, the study found less than one-third to be reproducible.

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13 IT resolutions for 2024

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CIOs are readying for another demanding year, anticipating that artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, business demands, and expectations for ever-increasing levels of speed will all be in play for 2024. That’s the case for Yi Zhou, CTO and CIO with Adaptive Biotechnologies. He has a plan to do that.

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GeekWire Podcast: What Seattle’s billion-dollar startups say about the region’s tech industry

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Joining us as a guest commentator this week: Heather Redman , co-founder and managing partner of Flying Fish Partners , a Seattle-based venture capital firm that focuses its investments on machine learning and artificial intelligence. The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing.

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‘Intersection of innovation’: Why top tech VC firms are betting big on life science startups

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New technologies such as artificial intelligence are changing the way drugs are discovered and developed, and more biotech startups have adopted an engineering mindset. Patel is among a growing cadre of biotech and life sciences execs who made the leap from software startups. billion more than a decade ago. Sensing opportunity.