Innovation

U.S. Defense Department CIO Dana Deasy wants to make artificial intelligence "the agent of transformation" in the agency, he told FedScoop.

IBM scientists have developed a new safeguard aimed at reducing algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence, Futurism reports.

Scientists in China used a new form of gene-editing technique CRISPR to correct a mutation in human embryos that causes Marfan syndrome, STAT reports.

An "in-body GPS" system in development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge could one day improve treatment for cancer patients, according to the multi-institutional research team.

The radiology department at New York University School of Medicine in New York City has joined forces with Facebook to launch fastMRI, a collaborative research project applying artificial intelligence to MRI scans.

Alphabet's artificial intelligence arm DeepMind published results of the first phase of its research partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital in London in Nature Medicine Aug. 13.

The National Institutes of Health awarded a consortium of universities $6.5 million to establish a technology resource center, dubbed the Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling.

A team of electrical and computer engineers from UC Los Angeles developed an artificial intelligence device that identifies objects at the speed of light, the university announced Aug. 2.

A new algorithm may accurately predict whether cancer patients starting chemotherapy will still be alive after a month of treatment, according to a study published in JAMA.

The Mount Sinai Institute for Next Generation Healthcare and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, both based in New York City, recently opened a center for biomedical blockchain research.