Innovation

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office plans to grant the UC Berkeley two patents related to CRISPR gene editing — a significant achievement for the university, which has been in a years-long patent battle with Boston-based Broad Institute over whose…

University Hospitals in Cleveland plans to deploy Allscripts' 2bPrecise platform to bring genomic data into patient care, the provider organization announced June 14.

St. George, Utah-based Intermountain Precision Genomics, the precision medicine arm of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, is accepting submissions for collaborative research projects.

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston created what they've dubbed the "world's first psychopath AI."

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spun out a nonprofit medical research institute to combat diseases that disproportionately affect low- and middle-income countries, STAT reports.

An international team of researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that diagnoses skin cancer more accurately than trained dermatologists.

Boston-based Harvard Business School's Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator added five cancer organizations that are collaborating to advance precision medicine opportunities across the cancer care arena.

Genetic tests are making  their way into primary care settings  — for example, Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger will offer DNA sequencing to 1,000 patients in June and Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health plans to include genetic screening for diseases and drug-gene…

Cleveland Clinic plans to open a two-story, 21,000-square-foot biobank facility on its campus during summer 2019.

University College London Hospitals entered into a three-year partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, also in London, to bring artificial intelligence capabilities to the U.K. National Health Service, The Guardian reports.