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Researchers develop artificial intelligence screening techniques to speed up drug discovery – ET HealthWorld

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Researchers develop artificial intelligence screening techniques to speed up drug discovery – ET HealthWorld

Orlando: Developing life-saving drugs can cost billions of dollars and take decades, but researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-based drug screening technique by using that they hope to shorten the process. Using a method that models drug and target protein interactions using natural language processing techniques, the researchers achieved up to 97% accuracy in … Read more

How a Single Finger Snap Became a Scientific Game-Changer

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How a Single Finger Snap Became a Scientific Game-Changer

Feb. 24, 2022 — Raghav Acharya, a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, was watching Avengers: Infinity War a few years back when he had a thought: How was supervillain Thanos able to snap his fingers while wearing a metal gauntlet? Acharya, an undergraduate studying chemical engineering, took that question to assistant … Read more

Quadriplegic driver makes Festival of Speed debut

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Quadriplegic driver makes Festival of Speed debut

Former IndyCar driver Sam Schmidt was paralysed from the shoulders down in a racing accident in 2000. Now, 21 years later, he is making his debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed in a semi-autonomous car that is controlled with head movements for turns and “sip-and-puff” control for acceleration. Mr Schmidt founded and co-owns the Arrow … Read more

Training May Speed Smell’s Return After COVID

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Training May Speed Smell’s Return After COVID

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Dec. 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Special training may help COVID-19 patients regain their sense of smell after suffering parosmia, a new British study suggests. Parosmia is a condition where people have strange and often unpleasant smell distortions. Instead of smelling a lemon, for example, you may … Read more

Viswanathan Anand lauds Nihal Sarin after India teenager wins Junior Speed Chess Championship

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Viswanathan Anand lauds Nihal Sarin after India teenager wins Junior Speed Chess Championship

Nihal Sarin won the 2020 Junior Speed Online Chess Championship after beating Russia’s world junior No. 6 Alexey Sarana 18-7 in the final. Nihal Sarin won Junior Speed Chess Championship. (Twitter Photo) HIGHLIGHTS Nihal is one of the world’s fastest juniors: Viswanathan Anand Nihal Sarin defeated Russia’s world junior No. 6 Alexey Sarana 18-7 in … Read more