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University spin-out Afynia secures $5M seed to commercialize its microRNA panel test for endometriosis | TechCrunch
Canadian biotech startup Afynia Laboratories, a spin-out from McMaster University in Ontario, has picked up $5 million in seed funding to commercialize a blood test for endometriosis — a medical condition that can afflict people with a uterus, causing problems like chronic pelvic pain and fertility issues. Endometriosis affects nearly 200 million people worldwide. Getting…
This AI Paper from Tel Aviv University Introduces GASLITE: A Gradient-Based Method to Expose Vulnerabilities in Dense Embedding-Based Text Retrieval Systems
Dense embedding-based text retrieval has become the cornerstone for ranking text passages in response to queries. The systems use deep learning models for embedding text into vector spaces that enable semantic similarity measurements. This method has been adopted widely in applications such as search engines and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where retrieving accurate and contextually relevant…