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DEEPEPHYS: IDENTIFYING BIOMARKERS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE WITH PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS
Parkinson’s disease is a severe neurodegenerative disorder that affects an increasing number of people in the world. Understanding the underlying mechanisms and the neuronal basis of this disease is a key step in the endeavor to develop new therapies. This is the goal...
CARBOSENSE4D: MODELLING CO2 CONCENTRATION ACROSS SWITZERLAND
Objectives Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important greenhouse gas (GHG) contributing to climate change. In order to better predict future CO2 levels and the corresponding climate forcing, it is thus vital to better understand the global carbon cycle. The...
AI TRENDS & USE CASES IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not an alien word anymore nowadays. We see both academic and industrial institutions adopting AI topics as a part of their curriculum and use cases to accelerate existing processes. The pharmaceutical industry is one of them. Figure 1....
THE SWISS DATA CUSTODIAN, PART 2: HOW TO ENHANCE BOTH DATA SHARING AND DATA PRIVACY
In a previous article, we talked about today’s data economy and the problems that arise from it. We presented the Swiss Data Custodian (SDC) — a new project from the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) — which is meant to protect the rights of individuals and...
THE SWISS DATA CUSTODIAN, PART I: A NECESSARY CONCEPT IN THE FIELD OF DATA PRIVACY
The digital self: a new dimension of the human being The human nature, though its meanings have varied across history and fields, is assumed to have at least two dimensions: the material body and the mind. Over the decades, many efforts involving data about...
IMPROVING SPECIES BIODIVERSITY ANALYSES AND CITIZEN SCIENCE FEEDBACK THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING
Biodiversity analyses in an Era of global changes In order to conserve and manage biodiversity, we need an improved understanding of essential biodiversity drivers and improved predictions of resulting biodiversity patterns in space and time. Patterns and processes...