Month: June 2021

Another New Alzheimer’s Drug Seeking FDA Approval

Fresh on the heels of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, the maker of a second medicine that works in similar fashion said Thursday it hopes to apply for approval of its medication later this year. Eli Lilly said… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David […]

Published on June 25, 2021

Delta Plus — the Newest Variant — Now in the US

India, already hit hard by the Delta variant of COVID-19, has labeled a closely related new variant – dubbed “Delta Plus” – as a “variant of concern. “But some epidemiologists in India and abroad say there’s just not enough data yet to warrant broader cautions about the… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. […]

Published on June 25, 2021

Arpra: An Arbitrary Precision Range Analysis Library

Motivated by the challenge of investigating the reproducibility of spiking neural network simulations, we have developed the Arpra library: an open source C library for arbitrary precision range analysis based on the mixed Interval Arithmetic (IA)/Affine Arithmetic (AA) method. Arpra builds on this method by implementing a novel mixed trimmed IA/AA, in which the error […]

Published on June 25, 2021