23andMe has 80 job openings posted on its website, offering insight into the popular direct-to-consumer DNA testing company's focus and areas for growth.
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Two children's cancer centers in the U.S. plan to use robotic ducks designed by Aflac to comfort kids while they receive treatment, Engadget reports.
Vineti, a cell and gene therapy platform, and Deloitte, an audit and consulting firm, are collaborating to bring personalized medicine solutions to life sciences companies, healthcare providers and patients.
Apple on Aug. 29 confirmed it acquired Akonia Holographics, a Longmont, Colo.-based startup that builds lenses for augmented-reality glasses, Reuters reports.
10x Genomics made its first acquisition Aug. 28, with the purchase of Epinomics, a startup developing technologies for epigenetics research.
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The National Institutes of Health recently completed the first phase of a website serving as a research hub for the agency's flagship precision medicine program, the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter reports.
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.