The digital pathology firm PathAI has released PathExplore Fibrosis, an AI-based tool that analyzes fibrosis and collagen structures from H&E-stained whole-slide tissue images. The software quantifies fibrotic areas and collagen fibers from standard pathology slides, replacing specialized staining techniques and microscopy equipment. The tool processes large datasets of tissue images, designed to work with existing…
Pitt’s high-performance computing upgrade signals accelerated translational research
The University of Pittsburgh’s recent, significant expansion of its high-performance computing capabilities, courtesy of a gift from Dell Technologies, indicates a strategic commitment to using large-scale data analysis for faster translational research. The additional 9.672 gigaFLOPS of computational power – translating to nearly 9.7 trillion additional computations per second – could help Pitt’s Innovation Hub…
Prioritizing translational research is changing drug development for patients and doctors, for good
Twelve years. That’s the average amount of time it takes for a viable therapeutic to make it from the research stage to approval for market. In that time, 2.4 million Americans will suffer the effects of severe acute pancreatitis, many of which can be long-lasting and debilitating. Roughly 240,000 of these patients will die as…