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May 15, 2019

Europe abandons plans for ‘flagship’ billion-euro research projects

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

The consortium, called LifeTime, aims to use three emerging technologies—machine learning, the study of single cells, and lab-grown organlike tissues called organoids—to map how human cells change over time and develop diseases. It is one of six candidates in the latest round of ambitious proposals for European flagships, billion-euro research projects intended to run for 10 years. There is just one snag: The European Commission has decided that it won’t launch any of them.


Six candidate research proposals lost in limbo.

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