AI algorithm used to reduce drug toxicity for brain cancer therapy

    CGTN: American researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing for glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. In a paper to be presented next week at the 2018 Machine Learning for Healthcare conference at Stanford University, researchers from the Massachusetts…

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      Why the Muslim world must protect the Rohingya

      Hafed Al-Ghwell, Non-resident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Institute at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies/ Arab News The Rohingya refugee crisis stunned the world when the first reports emerged of widespread ethnic cleansing in Rakhine state in Myanmar. Each new report was more alarming than the last, with stories of…

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        Three possibilities

        Cyril Almeida /Dawn, Pakistan FORGET the silliness about profound change and marvellousness. This is the real world and the real world, our world, is about fighting tooth and nail and maybe emerging bloodied but not broken. There have been three possible versions of Imran. One version is already dead, two possibilities remain — and together…

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          Where to from here, dear friends?

          M. Sanjeeb Hossain, Commonwealth Scholar and Sessional Tutor at the Warwick Law School/BDnews24 I do not think the school going kids of Bangladesh took control of the streets to topple the government as has been portrayed by some people. It was not about that, rather it was about a very legitimate demand for safer roads,…

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            Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul dies aged 85

            Abrar Hussain: Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died at the age of 85, his family said. Sir Vidia, born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including ‘A Bend in the River’ and his masterpiece, ‘A House for Mr Biswas’. His wife, Lady Naipaul, called…

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              170 houses gutted in Bandarban fire

              UNB: At least 170 houses were gutted in a fire that broke out at Maddampara in Sadar upazila on Saturday. the fire originated from the kitchen of a house around 12 pm and it soon engulfed the adjoining ones. Three fire-fighting units and locals with the help of police and army brought the fire under…

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