Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic entered into an agreement with DNA sequencing company Veritas Genetics to integrate whole-genome sequencing into clinical care, the company confirmed Jan. 8.
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Officials at the U.K. National Health Service are considering whether to roll out a new artificial intelligence system to its hospitals in summer 2018, the BBC reports.
Robert Palmer boasts 20-plus years of experience in data analytics — but he chose to focus his career on healthcare after his father was diagnosed with metastatic cancer.
Though research has shown smartphones may cause health problems such as depression and sleep disruption, scientists are now noting the data collected by these devices can be used to detect and predict certain health issues, according to NBC News.
23andMe plans to recruit 100,000 customers into a genetic weight loss study, the Mountain View, Calif.-based personal genomics and biotechnology company announced Dec. 28.
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RowAnalytics, Charlestown, Mass.-based Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Envision Genomics created a new, open initiative in precision medicine called Giro Health.
Michael Joyner, MD, a physiologist and anesthesiologist at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic, voiced skepticism regarding his colleagues' enthusiasm for precision medicine in a recent NPR report.
A team of international researchers developed a deep-learning system to screen patients for diabetic retinopathy and related eye diseases, according to a study published in JAMA Dec. 12.
The biotech startup Inscripta is attempting to "democratize" CRISPR by offering it to select researchers at no cost, according to Fortune.
Synthego, a provider of genome engineering solutions, unveiled its new CRISPRevolution Gene Knockout Kit, the first guaranteed CRISPR gene editing solution.