• Digestion Speed The Latest Clue In Quest Against Obesity

    Bio-IT World | The time it takes food to travel from the mouth to the rectum may change the metabolism of microbes in the gut. That’s one of the intriguing possibilities raised by a stool energy density study on overweight Danes recently completed by researchers at the University of Copenhagen, reports Henrik Roager, associate professor in the department of nutrition, exercise and sports.

    Jan 19, 2023

  • Global Federated Machine Learning Model Detects Glioblastoma Borders

    Bio-IT World | In a paper published late last year in Nature Communications, researchers from Penn Medicine and Intel Labs report on what they call the largest to-date global federated learning effort to develop an accurate and generalizable machine learning model for detecting glioblastoma borders. The work has important implications both clinically and as a model for future large, federated learning projects.

    Jan 17, 2023

  • At J.P. Morgan, PacBio Updates on Impending Revio, Onso Shipments

    Bio-IT World | In his second J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference address on behalf of Pacific Biosystems, CEO Christian Henry gave a summary of 2022 numbers and updates on the new sequencing platforms the company announced in October: the Revio long-read platform and the Onso short-read platform.

    Jan 13, 2023