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How DNA and EHR Data Helped Pinpoint a Pivotal Gene Variant
Hint: The finding relied on medical information from more than 46,000 Geisinger patients.
3D Model Could Provide Better Understanding of Cancer's Spread
What might this means of data generation teach medicine about drugs?
Precision Medicine, Sure. But What About Precision Payments?
Cota and Hackensack Meridian Health’s path toward bundled payments holds lessons for others.
How a $40 Million Investment Feels to an Analytics Startup
Cota's co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer would know: His company just got that amount in Series C.
Algorithm-Driven Wearable Device Helped Patients Expend Less Energy
Harvard University researchers said their findings could help improve wearable robotic devices.
Striving to Commercialize CRISPR, Inscripta Lands $55M
The gene-editing start-up doesn’t demand licensing fees and royalties from academic and commercial researchers.
Genome Analysis Leads to New Insights Into Opioid Addiction
A genetic variant might be associated with opioid addiction. But it can’t yet predict outcomes for individual patients.
Contextual Genomics Gets $12M From Hong Kong Investor
How the early investment could help boost precision cancer therapies.
How NLP and Genomics Can Scrape Psychiatric Insights Out of Unstructured EHR Data
A team of researchers from Harvard and Brigham and Women's says that their new methodology will be made freely available to other researchers.
Sangamo Inks $3B Deal with CAR T Leader Gilead
The story broke just a day after we published a sweeping feature on Sangamo’s fledgling gene-editing empire.
Lost in the CRISPR Hype, a Gene-Editing Giant Is Fighting Back
Sangamo’s ever-evolving zinc finger technology could catapult precision medicine. So why haven’t you heard about it?
Personalizing Healthcare: The Netflix Approach
Lessons that healthcare can take from the streaming video juggernaut as it tries to personalize care for every patient.
Celularity Opens Shop with $250M Bang
The company's founders say they want to make a world where "cancer is managed just like the common cold” and "100 years old is the new 60.”
The Nanorobots That Could Choke Out a Tumor
"I think we are much closer to real, practical medical applications of the technology."
Cota CMO Details Collaboration with IBM Watson Health
Andrew Norden, MD, says that he thinks the 2 companies' technologies together are "unsurpassed."
DiaCarta Raises $45M in Series B Round
The genomics company said the money will go towards strengthening its intellectual property positions and commercializing 1 of its cancer assays
How Cota Is Making Oncology More Precise
Traditional guidelines and ICD-10 codes get it wrong, according to the cutting-edge company's chief medical officer.
Harvard Law to Explore Legal Complexities of Precision Medicine, AI
The Ivy’s bioethics center will collaborate with colleagues at University of Copenhagen to develop frameworks around “black box” medicine.
Why Stanford and Prometheus Are Exploring the Genomics of Sleep Disorders
They are building a research registry of data from 30,000 patients. The goal: help scientists advance sleep medicine.
Using a Web-Based Platform to Deliver Genetic Results Responsibly
There simply aren't enough genetic counselors to deliver testing results to every patient.
The Cost of Knowing: How Genetic Tests Prevent and Produce Problems
Technology allows people to screen for hereditary cancers. But what happens afterward?
Roche's Big Week Continues With Syapse Partnership
The pharma company and the precision medicine start-up are chasing better cancer care.
Genomics England Adopts Edico's DRAGEN Platform
The initiative is similar to the All of Us program being run by the National Institutes of Health in the United States
Can AI Unlock the Mysteries of Tissue Regeneration?
A new study tackles 3 vexing questions: Do humans have genes that enable regeneration, could they be used to fight cancer, and can AI find them?
How New MRI-Inspired "Smart Pills" Could Optimize Diagnostic Testing
Caltech researchers continue to refine the microscopic device, whose potential continues to grow.
SomaLogic Receives $200M in New Investment
The majority of the new funding comes from Chinese genomics giant iCarbonX.
Personal Genome Diagnostics Raises $75 Million in Series B
Pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb is the newest investor in the genomic testing company.
Cota Links with Miami Cancer Institute
Why the cutting-edge analytics firm is joining forces with Baptist Health South Florida's year-old cancer center.
Microsoft and Foresite Capital Contribute to DNANexus's $58M Funding Round
"The next wave of biomedical insights is coming from cross-institutional collaborations that produce rapidly increasing amounts of multi-omics data."
The Ever-Evolving Consumer Genomics Industry
Companies face challenges, from courting customers to charming regulators.