Switzerland-based Sophia Genetics, a big data analytics company, raised $30 million in its latest round of funding, led by London-based Balderton Capital, according to Venture Beat.
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Seattle-based Swedish Cancer Institute joined forces with GNS Healthcare, a precision medicine company, to launch a machine learning collaboration aimed at improving the delivery of precision medicine in breast cancer care.
Andrew Norden, MD, a former health officer with IBM, joined Cota as CMO.
The market for artificial intelligence trainers, or human workers who label and sort data for AI systems, is nine figures and growing, according to a Bloomberg analysis by science writer Matthew Hutson.
WuXi NextCODE closed a $240 million Series B financing round. Sequoia China led the funding round.
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IBM plans to invest $240 million over the next 10 years to create a Watson-focused artificial intelligence lab in collaboration with Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
UC San Francisco researchers are using an $11.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to launch the Program in Prenatal and Pediatric Genomic Sequencing.
Doc.ai launched its natural language processing platform Aug. 24, which enables healthcare companies to answer patients' questions through "robo-doctors."
Illumina Accelerator will collaborate with Helix to support startups building direct-to-consumer genomics products.
Canadian researchers created new technology that uses machine-learning and artificial intelligence to identify melanoma skin cancer earlier.