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Recursion Announces its First Major Multidisciplinary Expansion, in Toronto, to Further Tech-Enabled Drug Discovery

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
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Today, Recursion has over 260 employees across biology, chemistry, automation, data science, machine learning, engineering and accelerating functions.

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  • Today, Recursion has over 260 employees across biology, chemistry, automation, data science, machine learning, engineering and accelerating functions.
  • Over the past year, Recursion has increased its headcount by over 60 per cent.
  • Recursion has initiated the office selection process in Toronto and plans to open the doors of its new hub in the fall.
  • Recursion is a clinical-stage biotechnology company decoding biology by integrating technological innovations across biology, chemistry, automation, machine learning and engineering.

Ensure National Mask Mandate COVID-19 Safety and Compliance in 5 seconds with the Turing Shield

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Monday, February 1, 2021
Academic disciplines, Theoretical computer science, Computer science, Alan Turing, Computability theory, Models of computation, Formal methods, Turing machine

Business leaders, employees, and travelers alike are wondering how long it will take for a solution that can ensure they meet the safety and compliance requirements.

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  • Business leaders, employees, and travelers alike are wondering how long it will take for a solution that can ensure they meet the safety and compliance requirements.
  • This COVID workplace and travel solution already exists and it's called the Turing Shield.
  • "At 140,000 scans per day, Turing Shield scanners detected mask compliance, stored answers to the CDC health questionnaire, and scanned for high temperatures, all within 20 seconds and with an accuracy of 0.5F.
  • "We know the importance of compliance for safety and security, and built the Turing Shield and Turing Machine to adhere to the strictest compliance protocols.

Recursion Releases First Open-Source Morphological Imaging Dataset on SARS-CoV-2 Virus

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Saturday, April 25, 2020
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Recursion , a digital biology company industrializing drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx19 dataset, which is the first human cellular morphological dataset of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).

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  • Recursion , a digital biology company industrializing drug discovery, released its open-source RxRx19 dataset, which is the first human cellular morphological dataset of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).
  • Any results and conclusions drawn from the in vitro experiments and targeted hypothesis-driven research will contribute to the growing body of COVID-19 scientific data.
  • At Recursion we have repeatedly seen how artificial intelligence coupled with target-agnostic drug discovery can rapidly uncover insights that are obscured through traditional approaches, said Ben Mabey, chief technology officer at Recursion.
  • Both dataset releases are part of RxRx.ai, a planned series of open-source biological and chemistry data releases for the machine learning community.

Recursion Building Onsite Childcare Facility to Support Working Parents

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Thursday, November 21, 2019
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Recursion , a tech-enabled biopharma company combining automation with artificial intelligence to discover novel treatments that expand our collective understanding of biology, announced today it will open an onsite childcare center in partnership with Bright Horizons to support working parents and ensure its people have access to convenient, affordable childcare.

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  • Recursion , a tech-enabled biopharma company combining automation with artificial intelligence to discover novel treatments that expand our collective understanding of biology, announced today it will open an onsite childcare center in partnership with Bright Horizons to support working parents and ensure its people have access to convenient, affordable childcare.
  • While securing affordable and accessible childcare is difficult for parents nationwide, it is especially challenging in Utah, dubbed the countrys " childcare desert for the fact that only one in four children are guaranteed to find an opening in a care facility.
  • This rings true for Recursion CEO and Co-Founder Chris Gibson, Ph.D., who almost didnt start Recursion when his family was faced with a childcare challenge:
    Recursion almost didnt happen.
  • I knew then that as soon as we could, we would open an onsite childcare facility at Recursion to help alleviate this critical challenge for our team.

Recursion Pharmaceuticals Secures $121 Million in Series C Financing

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Monday, July 15, 2019
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Recursion , a next-gen biopharma company combining automated, experimental biology with artificial intelligence to discover and develop drugs at scale, today announced the closing of a $121 million Series C financing.

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  • Recursion , a next-gen biopharma company combining automated, experimental biology with artificial intelligence to discover and develop drugs at scale, today announced the closing of a $121 million Series C financing.
  • The new financing will support Recursions continued build-out of its machine learning-enabled drug discovery platform alongside new capabilities designed to radically accelerate new chemical entity chemistry and predict safety pharmacology.
  • Recursion applies causative perturbations to human cells to generate disease models and associated biological image data.
  • Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City and in 2019 was designated a Fast Company Most Innovative Company.

Busy Beaver Set to Open New Store in Elkins, WV on April 10

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Monday, February 4, 2019
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The Elkins Busy Beaver will hire approximately 20 new full-time and 10-15 part-time employees.

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  • The Elkins Busy Beaver will hire approximately 20 new full-time and 10-15 part-time employees.
  • "We've been looking forward to opening our Busy Beaver store in Elkins, and we're excited to provide residents, DIYers and local contractors across the region with the same outstanding, customer-friendly store experience that Busy Beaver has become known for at all our locations.
  • We're pleased to become a part of the Elkins community," said Joe Kallen, chief executive officer, Busy Beaver.
  • Currently, Busy Beaver operates 22 stores in three states, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia; and employs more than 350 people.