Mark Fortner
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CEO @ https://aspen.bio, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, cancer research, AI in Drug Discovery, Research Project & Portfolio Management, FAIR data, semantic web, web components, java, groovy, genomics, proteomics, DEL, TPDs, Pancreatic Cancer
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#DigitalTransformation is the process of applying technologies like #AI, #automation and advanced analytics to fundamentally change #DrugDiscovery, in ways that measurably reduce costs and timelines, improve capital efficiency and create a more lean and agile research organization.
The Digital Transformation Roadmap - Aspen Biosciences
The whitepaper explores the impact of digital transformation on small molecule drug discovery, highlighting strategies to enhance R&D efficiency and reduce costs. It includes case studies,and practica...
aspenbiosciences.com
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It's a wonderful place, but so often outshone by the Mauritshuis. Hope you enjoyed it.
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mrhaki.com
Apache Groovy 5 has been released. Time to brush up my Groovy Goodness series. Let's start with some new ways to create a new map based on an iterable: blog.mrhaki.com/2025/08/groo... (This is actually my 1500th blog post on Messages from mrhaki blog) #Groovy #ApacheGroovy
Groovy Goodness: Transform Iterable Into A Map
A blog about Groovy, Java, Clojure, Asciidoctor, Gradle and other cool developer subjects.
blog.mrhaki.com
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It's a great museum. But you might want to try the Panorama Message, about 20 minutes away. Imagine stepping back in time to one perfect day on the beach at Scheveningen in 1880. Think of it as a 19th century holodeck or a time machine.
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Greetings from the Mauritshuis in The Hague, and from what I think is one of the most moving pictures ever painted: likely Rembrandt's last self-portrait, dating to the year he died. The aged artist fixes us with a look of utter world-weariness www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-colle...
Painted self-portrait showing an aged Rembrandt in turban, looking straight out at us
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nytimes.com
More than 23 million Americans are currently enrolled in Obamacare plans, and nearly all of them will face higher health care costs next year if extra federal funding for subsidies expires, as scheduled, on Dec. 31.
Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas
Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.
nyti.ms
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity
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warren.senate.gov
We’re in a health care crisis.

Hospitals and clinics will close from Trump’s cuts.

15 million people will lose their health care.

Now Trump’s CDC layoffs are making it even WORSE by gutting our ability to stop emerging health threats.

Democrats are fighting to stop this.
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The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works
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Seven years after the biotechnology firm launched, Akero Therapeutics is slated to be acquired by the Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk in a deal worth up to $5.2 billion. cen.acs.org/business/mer...
Novo Nordisk shells out $4.7 billion up front for liver disease firm
The Danish pharma will acquire Akero Therapeutics
cen.acs.org
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warren.senate.gov
After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.