Word: detectable
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...software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to boost efficiency in its clients' manufacturing, distribution and customer service. NuTech software allows Ford to find profitable new ways to sell vehicles that are coming off leases. It helps Unilever target inefficiencies in its supply chain. And it is being used to detect check and credit-card fraud at Bank of America--whose legendary former CEO, Hugh McColl, also serves on NuTech's board...
...misshapen clumps of proteins thought to cause neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that hid in a sandbox of normal proteins. In 2002 he finally succeeded, using a chemical agent to alter normal proteins but not so-called aggregated misfolded ones, leaving the clumps easier to detect. It would become the formula for a diagnostic kit usable by blood banks everywhere...
...While detecting VCJD in the blood supply is of pressing importance, what tantalizes investors and clinicians is the prospect of a similar blood test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. Doctors screen for the illness today using cognitive and memory exams, spinal taps or imaging tests--all pricey, none fail-safe. For the hundreds of companies working on treatments, that means relying on drug trials involving patients who may not even have the disease. "That's why the treatments we have now don't work that well," says Adams. In September, Amorfix announced that its technology can detect aggregated beta-amyloid...
Elleholm thinks Aresa will have a reliable land-mine-detecting thale-cress in about two years and hopes to apply similar biotech to detect larger, unexploded ordnance and eventually to cull antibodies from plants. But first it will focus on land mines. If it succeeds, Aresa will make thale-cress a weed that will be welcomed...
Charbonneau said yesterday that he is currently focused on the MEarth Project, which involves building an array of ground-based telescopes to detect potentially habitable planets. These telescopes will focus on rocky planets orbiting nearby low-mass stars that are cooler and dimmer than the Sun. The first few telescopes have already been built in Southern Arizona...