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Ever since blockchain burst onto the scene a decade ago as a technology primarily designed for use in the financial services industry, people have continually found new—and sometimes odd—applications for the technology. Blockchain has been applied to everything from “buying” time (sic!) to renting a supercomputer, yet when it comes to the life sciences, a […]

The Future Of Blockchain: The Use Cases Set To Reshape ...

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With the rise of AI & ML within Life Sciences & Health, it’s become obvious that a key blocker to success is not the maturity of the AI tools and techniques but access to data in sufficient volume and quality for the AI & ML methods to analyse. In this blog we discuss some of […]

Data Sharing challenges and AI

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In a new article published on LinkedIn, Richard Shute, Curlew Research Consultant, explains why he believes blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) can play a significant role in the good practice areas of the GxP domain to enhance compliance, quality and safety through improved trust and confidence. He explores how this can be accomplished by […]

Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology and GxP: The Trust Protocol Enhancing ...

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Reputation, corporate and personal, is an intangible asset of immense value. Building a positive reputation can be time-consuming, costly and difficult. Having your reputation ruined can, contrarily, be horribly easy and take but a moment. That is why corporations the world over – pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organizations are no exceptions – spend a lot […]

Blockchain and corporate reputation: could distributed ledger technology help (re)build ...

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  Our recent Pistoia Alliance blog post is available AI and machine learning (AI/ML) are certainly at peak hype at the moment around the current and future impact on Life Sciences and Healthcare. With a wealth of companies, large or small, offering new ways to interrogate existing data and build decision workflows supporting Life Science. But is […]

If Data is the currency of AI, are we doing ...

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When it comes to blockchain technology in R&D, clearly: “It’s All About The Data Sharing”! This is the main conclusion that has come out from a Pistoia Alliance assessment of blockchain applications in life sciences R&D managed by Richard Shute of Curlew Research for The Alliance. Over 75 scientists and developers from Big Pharma, informatics software […]

“It’s All About The Data Sharing!” Pistoia Alliance’s “Blockchain in ...

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Image from https://www.davidwolfe.com/medical-journal-studies-fake/ In a new article published on February 7 by Bio-IT World on potential use-cases and applications of blockchain, Richard Shute, Curlew Research Consultant, looks at how distributed ledger technology could be used to reduce the scourge of scientific data falsification.  In this extract Richard gives some background to the issue and hints at how […]

Scientific Data Doctoring: Could Blockchain Technology Help Stamp It Out?

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