Innovation

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.

Board-certified medical oncologist Aradhana Ghosh, MD, joined Syapse as its vice president of oncology, the San Francisco-based precision medicine startup announced Dec. 7.

Eastern Niagara Hospital in Lockport, N.Y., plans to triple the size of its emergency department as part of an $8.2 million project announced Wednesday, according to The Buffalo News.

The University of Chicago Medicine completed its $39 million advanced adult emergency department.

A team of researchers from the New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found six genes drive peanut allergy reactions, according to a study published in Nature Communications Dec. 5.

A research team at the Medical University of Vienna is applying artificial intelligence to digital images of patients' retinas, the university announced Nov. 28.

A team of researchers from Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University, Newark-based University of Delaware, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing a portal of information related to precision oncology.