Amazon Web Services to distribute $12M toward cloud-powered disease-fighting tools

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Amazon Web Services announced this week that it would distribute $12 million in computing credits and expertise toward cloud-powered early disease detection, prognosis, diagnostics and public health genomics projects.    Through its Diagnostic Development Initiative, the company says it aims to help organizations around the world better address diseases including – but not limited to – COVID-19.   “We have […]

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New genetic drug target for treatment resistant colorectal cancer

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Targeting a specific cancer survival gene in colorectal cancer could lead to new treatment options for advanced disease, new research suggests. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, in collaboration with the Candiolo Cancer Institute in Italy and the Netherlands Cancer Institute, used state-of-the-art patient derived organoid models to gather information about this genetic dependency, known as Werner Helicase (WRN), in […]

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Health tool significantly reduces medication over-prescription, improving patient safety

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When a doctor stops or changes a prescription in a patient’s electronic health record, this information may not reach the pharmacy, leading to the problem of dispensing discontinued medications. A new study from a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has found that the e-prescribing tool CancelRx more than doubled the proportion of successfully discontinued medications, from 34 […]

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Scientists put the stopwatch on cannabis intoxication

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How long is someone impaired after cannabis use? New analysis from the Lambert Initiative defines durations of impairment after inhaled or oral THC doses. Findings raise questions about current drug-driving laws, which penalize for THC presence, not intoxication levels. A comprehensive analysis of 80 scientific studies has identified a ‘window of impairment’ of between three and 10 hours caused by […]

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We the Best! DJ Khaled Teams Up with Cybex for Tropical Stroller Collection — Inspired by His Sons

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DJ Khaled and Nicole Tucker drew inspiration from their roles as parents for their latest project. While recently chatting with PEOPLE about teaming up with premium baby stroller brand Cybex for a unique We The Best Stroller collaboration, Khaled and Tucker, both 45, opened up about how their two sons — Asahd, 4, and Aalam, 14 months — were the inspiration […]

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Major risk of injury for recreational runners

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Almost half of all recreational runners incur injuries, mostly relating to knees, calves or Achilles tendons, and the level of risk is equally high whatever your age, gender or running experience. These are the findings of a thesis within sport science. Doctoral student Jonatan Jungmalm recruited a little over 200 recreational runners from the list of entrants for the Göteborgsvarvet […]

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Parallel Evaporator Assists Metabolomics Research

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BioChromato Inc. has published an interview with the Institute of Analytical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Fukuoka (Fukuoka, Japan) that explains how a Smart Evaporator C10 has enabled them to concentrate amino acids, without denaturation, such that they can be detected by LC/MS/MS. Researchers at the Institute of Analytical Sciences conducting fundamental metabolomics research on the […]

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