Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
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Procurement, not patents, was the key to vaccine and antiviral development during the pandemic
While intellectual property played a role in building technology platforms, the real star incentive bringing vaccines and antivirals forward was public sector investment, most prominently procurement. Understanding this reality provides an opportunity for proactive planning before the next pandemic.
Multimorbidity
This is a 'Behind the Paper' view of our recent Nature Reviews Disease Primer on Multimorbidity
Integrated multimodal artificial intelligence framework for healthcare applications
We propose Holistic AI in Medicine (HAIM), a unified framework to facilitate the generation and testing of AI systems that leverage multimodal inputs, and show its improvement by 6-33%. Its generalizability offers promising pathways for future multimodal predictive systems in healthcare settings.
