TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Many mobile phone users have been concerned about a possible link between the use of these handsets and cancer ever since the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency, classified radio wave exposure as a possible carcinogen to humans in 2011 – they can now stop worrying.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The researchers' recently published study describes a way to re-activate apoptosis in mutated cells, which would amount to forcing cancer to self-destruct through a bioengineered, bonding molecule. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Google plans to train an AI using the open-source platform TensorFlow to detect cancerous cells in photos taken from a microscope. They’ve already started developing the neural networks by using the Google Cloud Healthcare API to de-identify and segment existing datasets. Once the AI is fully trained, they’ll design their.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Other hashtags related to childhood cancer include #findacure, #gogold, #morethan4, #littleheros, etc. I for one did not know before writing this post that the childhood cancer community knows the National Cancer Institute only gives less than 4% to research and to cure all types of childhood cancer.

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TechSpot

JULY 9, 2024

The first switch enables engineered cells to outgrow and dominate the rest of the cancer cell population when exposed to a particular drug. The key innovation involves introducing two new "switches." The second switch then unleashes a toxin that kills the now-dominant modified cells along with their unmodified neighbors. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

ImpriMed, a California-based precision medicine startup, builds AI-powered dog cancer treatment technology that helps veterinarians identify the most suitable drugs for individual canine and feline blood cancers.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

billion in damages to a man who says the company’s Roundup weed killer caused his cancer , according to attorneys representing the plaintiff. ” Germany-based Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, has continued to dispute claims that Roundup causes cancer.

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frontstream

JULY 28, 2023

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and a great time to raise awareness and funds for treatment against the leading disease-related killer of children in the US.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This is important because many diseases, particularly cancer, are driven by changes in particular cells, not all cells; precision treatments require pinpointing those that really matter. Protagonist reported over $259 million in license and collaboration revenue for the first half of 2024.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Jamie Bearse of ZERO — The End of Prostate Cancer shares how his organization developed the ZERO Flywheel method to build and keep a community engaged. Organizations that seek to find growth and success depend on a cause community to carry them.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

interim CEO of the American Cancer Society & American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network; Joanne Pike, president and CEO of the Alzheimers Association; and, Susannah Schaefer, president and CEO of Smile Train. The recorded session is available here. Frederick, M.D., Technology is in our DNA, said Schaefer of Smile Train.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 23, 2025

While it may not sound like a major leap, this approach offers one big advantage: killing cancerous cells while doing less damage to surrounding healthy tissue. This is believed to occur because healthy tissues can better withstand the rapid dose than cancer cells. Read Entire Article

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 8: World Ovarian Cancer Day — #WOCD23. 16: World Pancreatic Cancer Day — #WorldPancreaticCancerDay. 16: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 28: Data Privacy Day — #DataPrivacyDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 6: Reclaim Social — #ReclaimSocial.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It gets people to do crazy things like VanHuss signing up for Jujitsu and Courtney Bugler, president and CEO of Zero Prostate Cancer, joining the ballroom dance community, the pair shared in the NonProfit POWER session, “Why the CEO Is the Only One Who Can Build Your Nonprofit Community.”

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Its scientists are focused on disease areas including cancer, immune dysfunction and neurodegeneration. For example, researchers from Stanford and the Arc Institute found that in tests with BRCA1, a gene associated with breast cancer, Evo 2 could predict with 90% accuracy whether previously unrecognized mutations would affect gene function.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 11, 2022

In this episode of The NonProfit Voice, Amanda Cole, editor-in-chief of NonProfit PRO, is joined by Jarrett Collins, president of Pan-Mass Challenge, a bike-a-thon that benefits the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Artificial intelligence programs that check medical images for evidence of cancer can be duped by hacks and cyberattacks, according to a new study. Researchers demonstrated that a computer program could add or remove evidence of cancer from mammograms, and those changes fooled both an AI tool and human radiologists.

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 12, 2024

More than one-third of U.S. campaigns on GoFundMe highlighted medical financial hardship and health-related social needs, researchers found.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 9, 2023

Following the Covid-19 vaccine rollouts, BioNTech wants to use the same messenger-ribonucleic-acid technology (mRNA) tech in other therapies, including cancer vaccines. The treatments, tailor-made for an individual, provide immune systems with genetic code from a specific cancer so only the tumor can be targeted.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Penn State THON, the largest student-run philanthropy that delivers financial and emotional aid to families affected by childhood cancer, announced that it raised an all-time annual high of $15,006,132.46 following the organization's annual 46-hour dance marathon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 19: World Pancreatic Cancer Day — #WorldPancreaticCancerDay. 17: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay. 18: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 28: Data Privacy Day — #DataPrivacyDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 13: World Radio Day — #WorldRadioDay.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Senti Biosciences , a company developing cancer therapies using a new programmable biology platform, said it has raised $105 million in a new round of financing led by the venture arm of life sciences giant Bayer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 19: World Pancreatic Cancer Day — #WorldPancreaticCancerDay. 17: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 28: Data Privacy Day — #DataPrivacyDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 8: Safer Internet Day — #SaferInternetDay. 13: World Radio Day — #WorldRadioDay.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meet NXgenPort , a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based startup that’s looking to remotely monitor cancer patients in between doctor visits using a port catheter. NXgenPort is the brainchild of CEO and co-founder Cathy Skinner, who came up with the idea for the port based on her own experience after her father passed away from cancer 20 years ago.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Brynn Brasington has 4 years of experience leading the largest walkathon fundraiser in the US, Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, while serving at The American Cancer Society. Follow these best practices used by development pros all over the world and your event will be geared for success. ? About the Author.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

The V Foundation for Cancer Research in Cary, N.C. announced a major expansion to its partnership with the Dolphins Cancer Challenge (DCC) during the recent 2024 ESPY Awards show. Additionally, it will investigate how these disparities affect outcomes, and aid in cancer treatment beyond South Florida.

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Microsoft AI

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The most precious resources at Institut Curie are their people, who have devoted years to advanced studies. Copilot for Researcher is an agent that can help them with some of the administrative tasks in their jobs so they have more time to spend on actual new ideas.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The natural world has produced many of our most important medicines, but instead of looking under a leaf or rock for the next big cancer drug, Pragma Bio is searching within the human body — its swarm of resident microbes, to be precise. Most are benign, a handful malign, but many are beneficial in ways we don’t completely understand.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

WP Engine is a major WordPress hosting provider that has been commercializing the open-source WordPress project since 2010. Over their 14-year history, they've raised nearly $300 million, with most of that – $250 million – coming from private equity firm Silver Lake in 2018. Read Entire Article

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 21: World Pancreatic Cancer Day — #WPCD19. 20: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay. 21: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 5: Safer Internet Day — #SID19. 14: V-Day — #1BillionRising.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2025

and his daughter, Tessa Stephenson Brand, in support of pancreatic cancer research. And Griffin, who has also moved to southern Florida, awarded $50 million each to the University of Miami for its comprehensive cancer center and Baptist Health South Florida to advance neurological care in the region. Emmet Stephenson Jr.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Charles and his wife, Irma, co-founded Four Diamonds in 1972, following their son Christopher’s nearly three-year battle with cancer. Their intention was to help other families whose children were fighting cancer at what is now Penn State Health Children’s Hospital. 4 in Washington state.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2022

For instance, the Prostate Cancer Foundation hosted a great push-up challenge in which participants had to “commit to doing 10 push-ups for every $20 donation received. ” (via the Prostate Cancer Foundation ). ” (via the Prostate Cancer Foundation ).

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NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So, if donors care about a mission, such as the eradication of cancer, ending poverty or high-quality education, they realize the source of fundamental change occurs with the partnership between technology and humans. Donors understand that data and technology are game-changers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Approximately 20 seconds after landing on the website for the Colorectal Cancer Alliance website , a small “Donate” popup slides in featuring a recent donation. For example, the Nature Conservancy uses a maroon top bar to send visitors prompted by TV ads to their monthly giving donation page.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Studies have shown that AI trained on sizable data can outperform physicians in several areas of medical diagnosis regarding brain tumors, eye disease, breast cancer, skin cancer and lung cancer. Further trials are needed, but as these technologies are deployed and more data is gathered, the AI stands to outclass doctors.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Extrachromosomal DNA, or ecDNA, is a piece of genetic material found outside of chromosomes in human cells. Chromosomes are the main repository for normal genetic material, providing instructions on how to behave, function or reproduce to the aforementioned cells. Genes that are found outside of chromosomes in other parts of. Read Entire Article

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