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Top 10 Healthcare Innovations of 2024, Per TIME’s Best Inventions List

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Top Hospital-Based Healthcare Innovations Google DeepMind AlphaFold 3: Rendering Molecules in HD Drug discovery often hinges on predicting how proteins interact with each other. Understanding these interactions is like solving a three-dimensional puzzle with thousands of pieces.

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AI’s infiltration of pharma: How COVID-19 accelerated change

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In January, Google DeepMind debuted AlphaFold, a deep-learning system that predicts the structure of several under-studied proteins, including those associated with COVID-19. These chatbots can nurse and triage patients. In the future we could see virtual nursing assistants become commonplace to support care.

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Regeneron tests COVID-19 antibody therapy in UK’s RECOVERY trial

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The two antibodies chosen by Regeneron bind to the receptor binding domain of the virus’s spike protein, which it uses to bind with and infect healthy cells. The trial involves many thousands of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and research administrators at 176 hospitals across the whole of the UK.

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Can We Better Protect Our Memories As We Age? Join a Study That Focuses on the Progression of Early Alzheimer’s

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This study offers a simple blood test to detect an abnormal protein associated with Alzheimers disease in adults aged 65 to 80. The majority of participants (about 96%) will not have this abnormal protein and will not progress further in the study. Interested? Take our questionnaire and find out if this study is right for you.

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Do Walnuts Reduce Death Risk and Increase Life Expectancy?

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For this study, the researchers examined data on 67,000 women from the Nurses’ Health Study with an average age of 63.6 Walnuts contain a number of essential nutrients, including protein, fiber, and magnesium and have a decent amount of omega 3 fatty acids. They also reviewed data on 26,000 men with an average age of 63.3

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Vyjuvek Gets FDA Nod as First Topical Gene Therapy for Rare Skin Disease

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DEB patients are also at an increased risk of aggressive skin cancer.DEB usually presents at birth and is caused by one or more mutations in the COL7A1 gene, which encodes type VII collagen (COL7), an important protein that helps connect, strengthen and stabilize the outer and middle layers of the skin.

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How COVID-19 Changed Food Sampling in Retail and At Home

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Previously, the brand cut up one of its plant-based, protein-rich bars into four pieces to hand out through an in-store display. While the bars were not given out to patients, they were given to most hospital workers, from security to nurses, to doctors and administrative staff.