manual work

Sophie said she was excited to be working alongside Mr Garner as she loved manual work.

“We already see AI freeing-up Vodafone employees’ time from tedious, repetitive manual work, enabling them to focus on more creative activities that benefit our customers and the environment.”

Until now, this has often involved laborious manual work, and in many cases the search yielded molecules that were very difficult or impossible to synthesise.

Now, researchers at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, led by Group Leader Marius Pachitariu, have released Kilosort4, an updated version of the popular spike-sorting software that has improved processing, requires less manual work, and is more accurate and easier to use than previous versions.

A promising way to study disease and test new drugs is to use cellular and engineered tissue models in a dish, but existing methods to study heart cell contraction and calcium handling require a good deal of manual work, are prone to errors, and need expensive specialized equipment.