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More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more The firm behind a $1 billion hotel rescue capital strategy announced earlier this year appears ready to make an investment to the tune of $200 million. Acore Capital plans to make the preferred-equity investment in Graduate Hotels, a rapidly growing Chicago-based company with 32 boutique hotels in U.S. and UK college markets. The transaction would enable Graduate to both ...

FIND Cell is a new tool that digitizes cell culture to enable reproducible biomedical science New cloud based software platform reduces research costs and improves speed and reliability News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Lack of reproducibility is a critical problem in biomedical science, wasting both time and billions of dollars every year. The Correspondence " Tracking cell lineages improves research reproducibility", published today ...

A report released Wednesday provides technological solutions for some of the city’s myriad problems and examines the barriers to their adoption, with the hope of provoking intense debate about urban technology in this year’s municipal election.  The 124-page report, titled “Rebooting NYC: An Urban Tech Agenda for the Next Administration,” is a first draft released by Cornell Tech’s Urban Tech Hub, part of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute located on Roosevelt Island. It provides...

95% of cell lines used in clinical research of European descent Scientists say pre-clinical cellular research needs to be diversified. 95% of all cell lines used in medical research come from people of European descent. Image credit: CellBank Australia The basis for medical research is the pre-clinical research phase, which almost invariably focuses on cellular work in the laboratory. But 95% of all human cell lines used in clinical research worldwide are of European descent – adding an inher...

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 E-Mail IMAGE: 95% of human cell lines used in countless medical research studies are of European descent. view more  Credit: Peter Morris for Childrens Medical Research Institute Sydney, Australia; New York City, USA (May 13, 2021)--In a collaborative report published today in Cell, scientists from Sydney and New York describe the critical worldwide need to improve the diversity of cells used in medical research. Currently, 95% of all human cell lines used in research are of Europea...

Written by Jennifer Huizen on May 13, 2021 — Fact checked by Anna Guildford, Ph.D. A new report calls out the dire need for diversity in human cell lines. piranka/Getty Images In a new report, researchers cite a dire need to increase diversity in preclinical research using human cell lines (HCL). Currently, some 95% of commonly used cell lines come from people of European descent. The authors explain that African Americans and other groups are under-represented in preclinical research and are...

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May 13, 2021 Cornell is undertaking a universitywide initiative that will better integrate central administrative units, schools and colleges after a series of functional reviews that began in April 2020 to identify potential cost savings to offset the financial toll of the coronavirus pandemic. “In an era of constrained resources, we always want to manage our expenses, so that we can invest in core priorities, and hold down tuition growth,” said Joanne DeStefano, executive vice president ...

These 11 fintech startups are working to make financial inclusion accessible and affordable for Bharat 153 The accelerator programme by Bharat Inclusion selected these 11 fintech startups for developing innovative solutions to democratise access to improve Bharats financial health. The Financial Inclusion Lab, the accelerator programme by the Bharat Inclusion Initiative, has selected 11 fintech startups for its inaugural cohort. The Lab focuses on incubating and accelerating early-stage star...