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Charting The Flow Of Knowledge Between Regions

The Horizons Tracker

This notion of knowledge and innovation being a fluid process whereby ideas are combined and built upon is now widely understood. These clusters help to facilitate the kind of informal network and face-to-face interactions that have long been viewed as vital to effective innovation. Fueling innovation. Knowledge transfer.

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New Material Aims To Make Drugs Cheaper

The Horizons Tracker

Despite the Covid pandemic showing that vital treatments can be developed quicker than is often the case, medicines remain extremely expensive to produce, which inevitably limits global access to them. They have developed a material that uses electrical signals to first capture and then release biomolecules. Drug release.

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A World Gone Social

Lead Change Blog

Discover how to identify your organization’s brand champions and internal advocates and leverage their passion and talent; and enable an OPEN (Ordinary People | Extraordinary Network) circle of collaborators to innovate, solve complex problems and achieve a common goal. How should we deal with it?

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Using AI To Understand Smell

The Horizons Tracker

The latest example in the field comes via new research from the University of California, Riverside, which highlights how machine learning is used to understand what a chemical smells like. “We now can use artificial intelligence to predict how any chemical is going to smell to humans, ” the researchers say.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Green Space Can Slow Biological Aging

The Horizons Tracker

DNA methylation-based epigenetic age refers to modifications in the chemical composition of DNA that may exert an influence on various age-related health outcomes. Notably, this sample constitutes a subset of a larger-scale cohort study known as the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) conducted within the United States.

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The New Wearable That Can Detect Fatigue In Real-Time

The Horizons Tracker

As such, the material is ideal for biosensors that aim to detect very small changes in chemical concentration. The team built on this initial work and have been further developing the concept. The device was designed so that it could successfully absorb sweat and detect a number of analytes in it, including lactic acid and glucose.

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