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Clinical Research as a Profession with Erika Stevens

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Unlike an electrical engineer or a plumber, clinical research roles are not explicitly defined or categorized as such, in government employment databases. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Gerontology from Case Western University. To explore the topic of clinical research as a profession, I invited Erike Stevens on the podcast.

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Robot enables communication between people isolated due to COVID-19 and their relatives

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It is designed to facilitate the work of professionals in nursing homes and hospitals Credit: University of Malaga Researchers of the Integrated Systems Engineering Group of the University of Malaga (UMA) have designed a telepresence robot that enables people suffering from COVID-19 to talk to their loved ones.

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Chatbots for dementia patients and caregivers need more work

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Systematic review of apps finds need for evidence-based chatbots that have undergone end user evaluation Chatbots hold promise for dementia patient or caregiver support, but are still in their infancy, finds a paper published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

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Insilico Medicine gets $255 million to boost AI-powered R&D, announces a collaboration

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Credit: Insilco June 22, 2021, New York / Hong Kong — Insilico Medicine, a global leader in end-to-end artificial intelligence for target discovery, small molecule chemistry, and clinical development, announced that it has closed a $255 million from biotechnology experts to progress Insilico Medicine’s current therapeutic programs into (..)

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Dishing up 3D printed food, one tasty printout at a time

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Singapore researchers develop new method for ‘printing’ fresh vegetables, leading to tastier, more nutritious food for patients with swallowing difficulties Credit: SUTD / NTU / KTPH Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (..)

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Common HIV drugs may prevent leading cause of vision loss, study finds

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Credit: UVA Health Scientists have identified a group of drugs that may help stop a leading cause of vision loss after making an unexpected discovery that overturns a fundamental belief about DNA. The drugs, known as Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors, or NRTIs, are commonly used to treat HIV.

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International team identifies a new regulatory pathway in bladder cancer

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GULP1 regulates the NRF2-KEAP1 signaling axis in urothelial carcinoma Credit: Insilico Medicine August 20th, 2020, Hong Kong – Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with Insilico Medicine announce the publication of a new research paper titled “GULP1 regulates the NRF2-KEAP1 signaling axis in urothelial carcinoma” (..)