Emerging Technologies

All citizens and residents of the Gulf nation are able to schedule their free vaccination via BeAware, which was launched at the beginning of the pandemic as the country’s COVID-19 contact tracing offering. 

Dogged by months of personnel departures, Haven announced today that it will be shutting down its operations by the end of February.

This will facilitate faster immigration checkpoint clearance for travelers, enables more hassle-free travel, and reduces risks of crowds at the airport.

The tool was "100% accurate" when spotting cases among asymptomatic individuals, the researchers wrote, and could be deployed as a low-cost prescreener to support diagnostic testing efforts.

The launch coincides with 54gene being appointed as a country partner in a global registry study of healthcare workers exposed to COVID-19.

The company is releasing its research on mapping biomarkers for depression. 

Following news that its Project Baseline program was poorly received in parts of the Bay Area, the life science company characterized site closures as more of a pause and a redirection of resources across the state.

Researchers say that their tool detected cases with 79% accuracy, and did so within minutes.

The yet-to-be-named programme reportedly “leverages machine learning to optimise a clinical trial’s chances of success” through the analysis of factors such as patient population recruitment and dropout rate.