Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel says AI will help scientists understand "most diseases" in three to five years.

@Semafor quotes the executive: “The reason we still have people dying of cancer, people suffering from Alzheimer's, is we do not understand the fundamental biology of those diseases.”

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Disease #Cancer #Health #Science #Biology #Tech

Moderna CEO says AI will help scientists understand ‘most diseases’ in 3 to 5 years | Semafor

AI development could lead to huge advances in the scientific understanding of diseases, Moderna's CEO Stéphane Bancel said at Semafor's World Economy Summit.

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The #EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
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Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, #Kentucky, remains polluted.

The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.

#Pollution #Environment #Climate #CleanAir #CleanWater #Cancer #News #Science #Law

https://www.propublica.org/article/calvert-city-kentucky-epa-pollution-westlake-sacrifice-zones?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Why EPA Efforts to Clean Up Kentucky Town Haven’t Worked

Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, Kentucky, remains polluted. The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.

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“More than 200 chemical plants across country will be required to curb toxic pollutants they release into the air under a regulation announced by the #Biden admin…aimed at reducing risk of #cancer for people living near industrial sites. 1st time in nearly 2 decades the govt has tightened limits on pollution from chemical plants” #EPA

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Africa's fight against #urban #air #pollution
"With #urbanization and #economic #development, there is more pollution of air in urban areas, which exposes people to diseases that are linked to this polluted air," Felix Assah, a member of the population #health #research group at the #University of #Yaounde, told #DW. Such diseases include #cardiovascular and #respiratory ailments, along with #cancer.

Experts and organizations working for #cleaner air in Africa recently met in Yaounde to discuss how they can cooperate to monitor air quality using #sensor #technology

English https://www.dw.com/en/africas-fight-against-health-risks-of-urban-air-pollution/a-68757907

French https://www-dw-com.translate.goog/en/africas-fight-against-health-risks-of-urban-air-pollution/a-68757907?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr

#Afrika #afrique #africa #افريقيا

Africa's fight against urban air pollution

Cities are growing rapidly in Africa, but many countries lack effective technologies to measure the associated air pollution. Experts are finding new ways to track air quality in hopes of reducing health risks.

^{Martina Schwikowski (Deutsche Welle)}