The FDA on Jan. 8 cleared Excel Medical's patient surveillance and predictive algorithm system.

A team of researchers from Microsoft Research, UC Los Angeles and Cambridge, Mass.-based Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard are using artificial intelligence to improve CRISPR gene-editing outcomes.

Microsoft has joined forces with Adaptive Biotechnologies, a Seattle-based biotech company, to map the human immune system, according to a Jan. 4 Microsoft blog post by Peter Lee, PhD, the company's corporate vice president of artificial intelligence and research.

Cityblock Health, which spun out from Google's parent company Alphabet in late 2017, raised $20.8 million during its first round of funding, according to Reuters.

DNAnexus, a Mountain View, Calif.-based biomedical informatics and data management platform, raised $58 million in financing, the company confirmed Jan. 2.

The All of Us Research Program has met nearly 5 percent of its 1 million-participant goal — a sufficient amount for testing pipelines, evaluating data types and assessing return-of-information strategies, the program's Advisory Panel's Genomics Working Group wrote in its…

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Google released an artificial intelligence tool Dec. 4 that analyzes high-throughput sequencing data, MIT Technology Review reports.

LifeIMAGE, a medical information exchange network, joined the partner program on Google Cloud Platform, the company announced Nov. 1.

IBM unveiled additions to refine data on its Watson Data Platform Nov. 2.