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The proof-of-concept study published in Nature Cancer highlights how researchers are using tumor cells to predict whether patients will respond to specific drugs.

The National Institute on Aging will utilize Ro's telehealth platform to screen and recruit patients at elevated risk for developing Alzheimer's disease or other related dementia.

The mental health company will use Curebase's decentralized clinical trial platform to study its treatment program's efficacy.

LifePoint Health announced a partnership with Google Cloud to use its Healthcare Data Engine, and the National Institutes of Health will invest $130 million over four years to accelerate the use of AI in biomedical and behavioral research.

GE Research has received a grant from the NIH to develop sensors that can be embedded into mobile devices to detect COVID-19 particles on their surfaces.   

The grants total nearly $7 million and support investigational partnerships between Talkspace, the University of Washington and Mental Health America.  

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The health research platform has already helped enroll 356,000 participants into the nationwide research program.

The grant recipient, a Penn State research lab, will also be partnering with Sage Bionetworks to develop a standardized suite of tools for similar projects in the future. 

Palantir, which is best known for its work in other industries, will deploy software able to automatically aggregate research data from public and private sources into a single interface.