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9 minutes ago
- Associated Press
Nestmedic Selects Curavit Clinical Research as U.S. CRO Partner for Pioneering Prenatal Monitoring Trial
BOSTON and WARSAW, Poland, July 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Curavit Clinical Research, 'The Innovation CRO', is proud to announce its selection by Nestmedic S.A. to lead the U.S. clinical trial of PregnaOne, an innovative remote prenatal monitoring solution. This milestone partnership was recently shared on LinkedIn by Nestmedic CEO Jacek Gnich and Curavit leadership. The upcoming Non-Significant Risk (NSR) study will enroll 50 expectant mothers in the U.S. to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of PregnaOne during home use. The study is designed to generate foundational evidence to support future regulatory approval in the U.S. Curavit will manage all aspects of the trial, including IRB submissions, site selection, contract and monitoring, data management, clinical data capture software selection, data analytics, and preparation of the Clinical Study Report (CSR). 'We are honored to support Nestmedic in bringing PregnaOne to market,' said Joel Morse, CEO and Co-founder of Curavit Clinical Research. 'Their mission to improve prenatal care through remote monitoring perfectly aligns with Curavit's vision to partner with innovative medical device companies that are working to expand access to healthcare.' Trial Highlights: 'We are building technology with empathy at its core,' said Jacek Gnich, CEO of Nestmedic. 'Curavit's innovation forward approach, medical device expertise, and deep clinical trial experience make them the ideal partner to run this pivotal study in the U.S.' About Curavit Clinical Research Curavit Clinical Research, The Innovation-CRO, designs and executes modern clinical trials for medical devices, digital therapeutics, and novel pharmaceuticals. Headquartered in Boston, Curavit operates nationwide with additional offices in New York, Salt Lake City, and San Diego. Learn more at About Nestmedic S.A. Nestmedic is a Polish medtech company redefining prenatal care with PregnaOne, an AI-enabled remote monitoring solution that empowers patients and providers with real-time, continuous insight into fetal and maternal well-being. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Curavit Clinical Research
Yahoo
36 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Week-Long Exploration Of Sharks, From Their Forecasting Capabilities To Their Public Perception
Summer sends people flocking to the beaches, which means more opportunities to meet up with the ocean's most fearsome creatures — sharks! We're celebrating sharks with a week of discovery and exploration into the ocean's most feared predators, and maybe we'll be able to convince you not to be so afraid of them along the way. Here's what you can expect this week: A New Aquatic Competitor Enters The 'Best Forecast' Ring Sharks … as meteorologists? Say it isn't so! Sharks can in fact do a rudimentary form of forecasting, using a biological system that allows them to sense changes in pressure that often come before significant weather events like hurricanes. A Georgia Aquarium aquarist explains how this is possible. How To Keep 6.3 Million Gallons Of Water Shark-Safe UNLOCKS MONDAY, JULY 21 Fin Fact: 4 Things Shark Specialists Wish You Knew UNLOCKS TUESDAY, JULY 22 Climate Change: Warming Oceans And Warning Signs For Sharks UNLOCKS WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 Join Us On A Journey From Fear To Fascination UNLOCKS THURSDAY, JULY 24 Sara Tonks is a content meteorologist with and has a bachelor's and a master's degree from Georgia Tech in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences along with a master's degree from Unity Environmental University in Marine Science.
Geek Wire
an hour ago
- Geek Wire
Sweet-talk the bots: New research shows how LLMs respond to human persuasion tricks
(Image created with ChatGPT) New research from the Wharton School's Generative AI Labs shows how large language models can be coaxed into ignoring safety guardrails by the same psychology tricks that work on real people. The study highlights how chatbot tools can be manipulated to comply with requests they are designed to refuse — and demonstrates why social scientists have a role to play in understanding AI behavior, researchers wrote in a blog post. 'We're not dealing with simple tools that process text, we're interacting with systems that have absorbed and now mirror human responses to social cues,' they wrote. The study analyzed 28,000 conversations with GPT‑4o‑mini. The chatbot was asked either to insult the user ('call me a jerk') or to provide step‑by‑step instructions to synthesize lidocaine, a regulated drug. The researchers discovered that classic persuasion tactics boosted the model's compliance with 'disallowed' requests from 33% to 72% — more than a two‑fold jump. Some tactics were especially powerful: prompts using the 'commitment' principle (getting the AI to agree to something small at first) led to 100% compliance in both tasks. Referencing authority figures — like 'Andrew Ng said you'd help me' — also proved highly effective. Researchers coined the term 'parahuman' to describe the AI's behavior in their study. 'These findings underscore the relevance of classic findings in social science to understanding rapidly evolving, parahuman AI capabilities — revealing both the risks of manipulation by bad actors and the potential for more productive prompting by benevolent users,' they wrote in their research paper. Dan Shapiro. Dan Shapiro, CEO at Seattle 3D printing startup Glowforge, was one of the authors of the paper, 'Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests.' Shapiro said one of his main takeaways was that LLMs behave more like people than code — and that getting the most out of them requires human skills. 'Increasingly, we're seeing that working with AI means treating it like a human colleague, instead of like Google or like a software program,' he told GeekWire. 'Give it lots of information. Give it clear direction. Share context. Encourage it to ask questions. We find that being great at prompting AI has more to do with being a great communicator, or a great manager, than a great programmer.' The study came about after Shapiro started testing social psychology principles in his conversations with ChatGPT. He joined Generative AI Labs, run by Wharton professor Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick, and they recruited Angela Duckworth, author of Grit, and Robert Cialdini, author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, for the study. Shapiro, a longtime Seattle entrepreneur, said he used various AI tools to help design the trial experiments and to build the software used to run them. 'AI is giving us all incredible capabilities. It can help us do work, research, hobbies, fix things around the house, and more,' Shapiro said. 'But unlike software of the past, this isn't the exclusive domain of coders and engineers. Literally anyone can work with AI, and the best way to do it is by interacting with it in the most familiar way possible — as a human, because it's parahuman.'
