Posted on February 29, 2016
Today, we know molecular basis for almost over 4000 diseases. On the other hand, we have the treatment for only 250 of them. One would think that once you got the mechanism of the disease right, developing of some kind of treatment would be easy, you would think that once you have the knowledge, it’s […]
Posted on February 10, 2016
Epilepsy is an ensemble of different neurological diseases and it is mainly characterized by seizures. It affects 1% of the world population, however its etiology and biological mechanism are not yet clear. For this reason, nowadays the therapies to treat it are not totally efficient and they still exhibit several side-effects. Furthermore, finding the suitable […]
Posted on August 4, 2016
There is a lot of excitement about autonomous vehicles, or what is sometimes called ADAS. Many tout how much safer the roads will be, while others are thrilled by how the mobility challenges will seemingly go away when the car driving itself shows up to pick them up and drop them off at the right […]
Posted on June 6, 2016
How long did it take you to be good at your job? How long did it take you to prepare for having that job? If we take physicians for example, it takes about 7–10 years to become a doctor after one has finished high school. It takes perhaps another 5–10 years to have enough practical […]
Posted on February 16, 2016
1. Introduction Constant and balanced communications between different neuronal components are essential for the correct functioning of the human brain. An imbalance in the communication pathways leads to dysfunctions in the brain. The effects of these dysfunctions are counteracted by compensatory mechanisms. However, when the extent of these dysfunctions is significant, the effects of the […]
Posted on June 21, 2015
June 27th . . . the 178th day of the year. In history, it is denoted as a day when the world’s first ATM was installed in a northern London borough; the day Greece officially joined World War I with the Allied Powers; the day Mohammed Ali announced that his third retirement would be permanent […]
Posted on April 24, 2015
Introduction Malaria is a disease caused by a protozoa and transmitted by a mosquito. Estimates suggest it is the cause of 500 thousands deaths annually. The World Health Organization estimates that almost 3 billion people are at risk of Malaria and cited several challenges in their latest Malaria report for 2014. Among these challenges were […]
Posted on April 11, 2015
Researchers in pharmaceutical development must be prepared for the rather inevitability of failure throughout their research career. With the highly expensive, time-consuming, and lengthy process of drug development, it is desperately discouraging that only an estimated 8% of new drugs will successfully make it through the three phases of clinical testing to be approved […]
Posted on March 13, 2015
Coincidence occurrences, random events and likelihood. Over the lifetime, people ask themselves – was it just an occasional event or was it triggered by other happenings or was (or is) it a coincidence … Depends on who we are and how we prefer to reason, one may think of such events rationally and get the […]
Posted on March 12, 2015
Our entire team is excited to let you know that we have launched our first version of our Machine Learning API called Cognitio. On the link below you can signup as well as preview some of the API’s functionality in the web demo. Developers can take advantage of the private beta to test a new breed of […]