Epic

2022 - 10 - 31

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Epic Bio Presents First Data Supporting Persistent and Tunable ... (Business Wire)

Epic Bio, a biotechnology company developing therapies to modulate gene expression using compact, non-cutting dCas proteins, presented multiple datase.

Epic Bio has an initial focus on Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) and is conducting additional research to address Antitrypsin Deficiency (A1AD), Heterozygous Familial Hypocholesterolemia (HeFH), as well as other indications. Through the company’s library of the most compact Cas DNA-binding proteins to work on human cells, the company is developing in vivo therapies with delivery via a single AAV vector. “Looking at the data, we’ve shown our newly designed activator was capable of delivering persistent gene activation to our target genes of interest; thus, allowing us to tune gene expression. The company is using its proprietary Gene Expression Modulation System (GEMS) to develop therapies. Therefore, we are looking forward to continuing to develop our GEMS platform to address these challenges.” “This conference was a pivotal moment for the Epic Bio team.

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3 tips for planning your next epic PR event - PR Daily (PR Daily)

Setting (even attempting to) a world record can be a fun and effective way to generate lots of media buzz in a big way. As agency of record for Del Monte ...

Finally, prepare publication/broadcast ready materials for media to use even if the results of the event aren’t those you anticipated: there’s always a silver lining (or banana!) to be found. For example, choose a location with the possibility (or likelihood) of inclement weather: can you seamlessly and quickly pivot to an indoor location should you need to? While it’s impossible to predict what will be on the day’s news agenda, timing and location must maximize the potential for media interest and availability to attend. Carefully consider the amount of time needed for each element of the plan, including potential partners, required vendors, necessary permits, and interpreting and adhering to parameters from Guinness or other governing bodies. Supermarket shoppers and the local community were invited for free bananas, and remaining quantities were donated to the Northern Illinois regional food bank. Journalists were onsite, from the ground and the air, to witness the record attempt.

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Kasabian review – raucous electro bounce fills an absurdly epic show (The Guardian)

Serge Pizzorno steps up as frontman for this fearsome live show, which brings new shades of funk and soft rock to the band's trademark guitar anthems.

Rocket Fuel – from the band’s latest album, [The Alchemist’s Euphoria](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/04/kasabian-the-alchemists-euphoria-review-columbia-serge-pizzorno) – brings the noise, a trademark mix of Prodigy-ish beats and Oasis swagger to tee everyone up for the weekend. The song’s chorus – “We’ve got our backs to the wall” – has never sounded so powerful. Empire becomes a gigantic massed chant and the singer claims: “The vibe tonight is the best I’ve ever seen.” He mentions the state of the country before suggesting that LSF (Lost Souls Forever) is a chance to “forget all the shit and pain, and be together”. [sacked their singer, Tom Meighan](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/17/kasabian-sacking-frontman-tom-meighan-alchemist-euphoria), the day before he was convicted for assaulting his partner, bandmate Serge Pizzorno stepped up from the ranks as a readymade replacement. But he still packs enough charisma to say things like “Everybody raise your hands to the sky!” without sounding silly. [scored a perfect volleyed goal on live TV while wearing winkle-picker shoes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWdSuKfZEJQ) isn’t fazed by the prospect of facing a vast arena.

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PNY XLR8 EPIC-X RGB Silver DDR4 (DDR4-3200 CL16) Review ... (Pokde.Net)

The PNY XLR8 EPIC-X RGB Silver DDR4 (DDR4-3200 CL16) is here, with rather understated looks. How does it fare? Oh, and that long name...

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Epic endings: Mahabharatas final chapters (Business Standard)

Eminent Indologist Wendy Doniger's latest book focuses on the final days of the protagonists of the epic and makes their stories come alive with different ...

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Epic to Pilot Decision Support Tools Using Real-World Data (Healthcare Innovation)

Johnston Thayer, director of clinical informatics and population health at Epic, describes new point-of-care tools that will take advantage of Cosmos ...

They can make that available in the App Market, either to share freely or as a way to cover some of the costs of developing that tool.” So now it's very common for a CIO to either report directly to the CFO on the operation side or at least have a dotted line, so that they are embedded just as much on the business and operations side as they are on the informatics and IT side.” In this case, the goal is to identify providers who have seen similar patients so that the clinician can connect with them and have a conversation, do a “curbside consult,” and ask them questions about how they treated that patient and what some of the outcomes were. For a while, there was this artificial delineation between the operations side and the informatics or IT side under the CIO, and there was not a lot of alignment, especially from the strategy perspective. We're really excited for that to come out and to see how that starts to change some of the physician collaboration opportunity.” When you imagine the future of healthcare, many people think about the opportunity to just have a conversation with a patient and be able to automatically capture that conversation, turn it into something structured and meaningful and really reduce some of the manual input of information into a system.” Rather than putting in a request for the IT team to build out a new form, the clinicians actually learn how to do that themselves. If a physician has a patient with a rare disease or a unique constellation of symptoms that the physician hasn’t worked with previously, the program will look out across all of the Cosmos patients and identify similar patients. Best Care will allow me to see information from Cosmos about how patients that are similar to Charlie have been treated in the past and the outcomes of some of those treatments in terms of whether or not they were able to successfully lower the patient's blood pressure and to what extent, so it will really empower physicians as they're making decisions at the point of care to have that real-world data available to them.” “We're starting a pilot within the year where that information will initially be available within the Cosmos portal, but the goal is that the information will be directly embedded into the workflow. The new Best Care tool will offer the capability to see treatments and outcomes for patients similar to the one right in front of the clinician, Thayer explained. He said health systems are getting more sophisticated in their use of population health tools that can overlay the data to see, for instance, how many diabetic patients are overdue for a foot exam or for a regular screening.

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The Contemporary Clinic #4: The Birth of a New Female Epic Hero ... (E-Flux)

Iranian psychoanalyst Gohar Homayounpour reflects on the feminist-led uprising in Iran.

The daughters of Persia have spoken and shown the world that they are not only a lot more than that, but a plethora of archetypes that refuse to be spoken for. She was greeted by a huge crowd outside Tehran International Airport at 3:30 in the morning, to give her a hero’s welcome, with flowers and huge cheers for their newly arrived symbol of resistance. It is a feminine uprising not in the name of need but desire. It is a fight for life not death; it is an ethics of life: the only possible psychoanalytic ethics. A new epic hero is being born, a new feminine epic hero and whether we like it or not, this lovers’ union has happened. We could go as far as to say that this is the only possible mode of an invitation for cohabitation, for thinking. This subversive feminist revolt is the scene of the return of the repressed. A fascinating aspect of this event is the new formation of groups. We know this well as psychoanalysts, that such a significant event doesn’t suddenly happen; rather, this event of the birth of a new subject is a process, and women have been the face of political resistance for years in Iran. This feminist revolution is subversive because it is disturbing various chains of significations: social, political, personal, public and private, external and internal, the very discourse of subjectivity. This feminist movement is one that does not exclude; it does not exclude men, for in this geography it has become blatantly clear that the emancipation of men and women are inherently intertwined. I believe that what we are observing in Iran, as I write this, is one of the most significant and subversive feminist movements of our times, and as Slavoj Žižek reminds us in a video message he sent to the Iranian people, it is not enough to support this uprising from a superior position.

Louisiana health systems to share an Epic EHR (Becker's Hospital Review)

Baton Rouge, La.-based Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Zachary, La.-based Lane Regional Medical Center have entered into a formal agreement ...

31 press release Our Lady shared with Becker's. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center will help the staff at Lane Regional implement and install the Epic software, according to an Oct. Baton Rouge, La.-based Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Zachary, La.-based Lane Regional Medical Center have entered into a formal agreement to share an Epic EHR system.

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WDMH, KDH staff ask for patience ahead of new health information ... (mykemptvillenow.com)

The Kemptville District Hospital (KDH) and Winchester District Memorial Hospitals' (WDMH) new “Epic” health information platform launches this weekend, ...

“Preparation has been underway for many months with extensive staff and physician training, new equipment purchases, and improvements to the IT infrastructure,” they say. “Please be patient with the staff at each of our hospitals as they adjust to this new system.” Staff from both hospitals say things like appointments and registration might initially take a bit longer than usual, as workers get used to the new platform.

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Former Hawke's Bay Today cameraman's epic marine moment (New Zealand Herald)

Former Hawke's Bay Today photographer Richie Robinson never saw himself competing at the Olympics, but he has, and triumphed, at what some call the ...

They call it the Olympics of wildlife photography." "It's just starting to sink in. "Hindered by poor visibility, Richard used a polecam to photograph the whales gradually moving towards his boat," it says. Robinson started work as a press photographer at the Napier Daily Telegraph in 1997 and was at the Hawke's Bay for about the first year after it started in 1999 in a merger of the daily and the Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune. He became the chief photographer and worked for the paper for almost 30 years – becoming a life member of the Press Photographers Association - but outside of work also specialising in underwater photography. And it all started in Napier where he grew up, the grandson of long-time Napier Daily Telegraph photographer the late Rich Marshall, who outside of his career specialised in underwater photography and with an affinity for Marineland.

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