J&J and Abbott announce potential vaccine and rapid test for Covid-19
Two US healthcare companies have brought hope in the race to fight coronavirus, with Johnson & Johnson announcing a potential vaccine that could be available early next year and Abbott Laboratories launching a rapid test. Johnson & Johnson said it had discovered a potential vaccine candidate and was teaming up with the US government to invest $1 […]
COVID-19 is presenting a picture which companies and politicians value people!
Coronavirus is not just the most important news story in India (and the world), but also showcasing how enterprises are responding to it. “The Indian private sector must proactively address the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Sanjiv Bajaj, Managing Director, Bajaj Finserv. As we are aware with lock down in place and lots of restriction on movement […]
DeepMind a Google company working on the computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
Google’s DeepMind is leveraging its artificial intelligence systems to figure out protein’s structure properties of the novel coronavirus. Researchers have been developing computational methods to predict protein structure from the amino acid sequence. AlphaFold, the deep learning system developed by DeepMind focuses on predicting protein structure accurately when no structures of similar proteins are available, called […]
The biotechnology company AbCellera leveraging AI to develop antibodies from recovered patients.
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool used for predicting the disease’s future trend and to explore the possible treatments ,based on the quality data. The biotechnology company AbCellera is leveraging machine learning techniques and models to develop the therapies based on antibodies from those patients who have been able to recover successfully from this disease. […]
CEO OF VISA PLEDGED “NO COVID-19 RELATED LAYOFFS IN 2020”
Recently, in a post, Chairman and CEO of Visa, Alfred F. Kelly Jr. assured his 20,000 colleagues that the company will have no COVID-19 related layoffs in 2020. Kelly said, “There is enough sadness in the world and already too many families impacted by job losses. I have no interest in contributing to that.” He […]
