A team of researchers from Stanford University and Google have released a paper highlighting a deep learning approach they say shows promise in the field of drug discovery. What they found, essentially, is that… Read more »
is teaming up with food conglomerate Mars to study, and hopefully protect, citizens from foodborne illnesses by sequencing the genes of the tiny organisms that populate our food chains. Consisting… Read more »
Every day, an average of 18 people die waiting for an organ donation. The growing transplant wait list was 121,272 people long in 2013. A potential solution is 3D printed organs… Read more »
Health care players are making open data as much a part of their business models as they are for slick marketing campaigns. But for an industry that still relies on fax… Read more »
The education center and accelerator, which focuses on exponential technologies with big potential, will begin raising capital in the second quarter of 2014. Read more »
An Oakland-based startup called Omicia has raised a $6.8 million series A round of venture capital, led by Artis Ventures, for a cloud service that lets doctors analyze whole human genomes… Read more »
Two new platforms for storing and analyzing genomic data have raised venture capital recently, with Curoverse announcing $1.5 million in seed funding in mid-December and Tute Genomics announcing $1.5 million in… Read more »
In an effort to more accurately portray the U.S. economy as it grows ever-more dependent on intellectual property and innovation to create wealth, the Bureau of Economic Analysis has created a… Read more »