Drugmaker receives $4 million in federal cash as London’s life sciences sector grows

Kapil Lakhotia

Links to the Breadcrumb Trail News Local news A London drugmaker to add cutting-edge technology and scale up production for the Canadian market with federal help. Published July 12, 2023 1 minute read London Economic Development Corp. chief executive Kapil Lakhotia, left, and Mayor Josh Morgan are shown in this LFP file photo. Article content … Read more

Bedrock’s Autonomous Ocean Mapping Ambitions Get $25 Million as Renewables Rise

A Bedrock underwater vehicle and the company logo.

Image credits: Bottom rock Demand for offshore wind has skyrocketed, like all renewable energy sources, but the necessary work of surveying, inspecting and mapping coastal areas is a thing of the past. Bedrocks’ autonomous underwater vehicles and digital platform gaming could redefine the industry, and the company has attracted $25.5 million in new funding to … Read more

The oldest genetic data of a human relative found in 2 million year old teeth

Skull of Australopithecus (Paranthropus) robustus.

A Paranthropus robustus skull.Credit: Sabena Jane Merlo/Alamy Human hominids and their ancient relatives emerged in Africa about seven million years ago. Now researchers have gathered genetic information from an African hominid who lived two million years ago, the oldest data ever recovered. The protein sequences, described in a preprint posted on the bioRxiv server on … Read more

The direct-to-consumer genetic testing market is estimated to reach US$4843.4 million; Growing at a CAGR of 11.4% by the end of 2033 expected | Future Market Insights, Inc.

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Future Market Insights Global and Consulting Pvt. srl. The direct-to-consumer genetic testing market is expected to see significant demand driven primarily by ancestry testing, which comprises a major segment of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTC-GT). These tests are sold directly to people without the involvement of healthcare professionals or health insurers. NEWARK, Del, July 10, 2023 … Read more

The direct-to-consumer genetic testing market is estimated to reach US$4843.4 million; Growing at a CAGR of 11.4% by the end of 2033 expected | Future Market Insights, Inc.

The direct-to-consumer genetic testing market is estimated to reach US$4843.4 million;  Growing at a CAGR of 11.4% by the end of 2033 expected |  Future Market Insights, Inc.

NEWARK, Del, July 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The global direct-to-consumer genetic testing market was $1,485.1 million in 2022 and is estimated to reach $1,645.5 million in 2023. Future Market Insights mentioned in its reports that the smart farming solutions market will expand at a CAGR of 11.40% between 2023 and 2033, totaling approximately $4,843.4 … Read more

Edinburgh financial giant contributes 5 million tonnes of climate pollution

Wealth manager Abrdn, known as Standard Life Aberdeen until 2021, has stakes in some of the world’s biggest polluters, including oil multinationals Shell and BP, German coal firm RWE, and global mining companies Glencore and Rio Tinto. Abrdns’ investments in the 20 most polluting companies in its portfolio resulted in the emission of 4.8 million … Read more

University of Toronto researchers present scGPT: a basic model for single cell biology based on a generative transformer pre-trained in a repository of more than 33 million cells

University of Toronto researchers present scGPT: a basic model for single cell biology based on a generative transformer pre-trained in a repository of more than 33 million cells

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2023/07/02/2023.04.30.538439.full.pdf Natural language processing and computer vision are just examples of the fields where pre-trained generative models have been incredibly successful. In particular, a viable strategy for building foundation models is to combine various large-scale datasets with pre-trained transformers. The study investigates the feasibility of basic models for further research in cell biology and genetics … Read more

Stanford researchers present HyenaDNA: A long-range genomic basis model with context lengths up to 1 million tokens at single nucleotide resolution

Stanford researchers present HyenaDNA: A long-range genomic basis model with context lengths up to 1 million tokens at single nucleotide resolution

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-06-29-hyena-dna In recent years, there have been rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that have the potential to completely transform industries and push the boundaries of what is possible. One area that has garnered significant attention from researchers is the development of more robust and efficient models for natural language tasks. Against this backdrop, researchers … Read more