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NEC Joins European AI Vaccine Project for Pandemic Preparedness
NEC said on October 26 that its Norway-based subsidiary NEC OncoImmunity will participate in PREPAIR-VAC, a European research project aimed at accelerating vaccine development through artificial intelligence. NEC OncoImmunity, the project’s primary initiator, will be responsible for AI-driven antigen prediction…
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