Tag: Mutations

New AI Technology Detects Cancer Mutations in Minutes

November 15, 2022
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HAIFA, Israel—A new Israeli technology that analyzes digitized biopsy images in real time enables the detection of cancer mutations in a few minutes instead of a few weeks. This artificial intelligence (AI) tool was an initiative of a young computer scientist who lost his mother five years ago to ovarian cancer. Dean Bitan, 34, told…

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Scientist Who First Detected New Omicron Variant Worried by Unusual Speed of Mutations

December 6, 2021
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The scientist who first detected the new strain of the COVID-19 virus variant said on Friday that he is concerned about how fast it appears to have accumulated its unusual pattern of mutations. Dr. Sikhulile Moyo, a director for the Botswana Harvard HIV Reference Laboratory and a research fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…

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Biden Administration to Give States $1.7 Billion to Track CCP Virus Mutations

April 16, 2021
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The Biden administration announced Friday that it is giving states $1.7 billion to track variants of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19. A White House said in a statement that the money will come from funds allocated under the American Rescue Plan, with the aim of helping the Centers for Disease Control…

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Fauci Says CCP Virus Mutations Far More Transmissible but Vaccines Can Slow Them Down

January 22, 2021
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Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a Jan. 21 press briefing that, while new mutations of the CCP virus are far more transmissible than the original variants, vaccines can reduce their spread and impact their ability to mutate. Ramping up COVID-19 vaccinations will not only help stop the virus from spreading, but they will also…

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