• Researchers Assemble Pan-Genome From 910 Humans Of African Descent Using Deep Sequencing

    Bio-IT World | Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and other institutions recently conducted a study that used a deeply sequenced dataset of over 900 individuals of African descent to construct a set of DNA sequences that is missing from the current reference human genome.

    Nov 20, 2018

  • Data Science Foundation: Findable, Accessible Data

    Bio-IT World | Adam Margolin, the new Director of the Icahn Institute for Data Science & Genomic Technology, says the most foundational aspect of data science is not number crunching, but actually finding to data. If we could integrate data coming out of all of our molecular profiling studies, for instance, Margolin says, it would revolutionize our ability to understand patients. 

    Nov 19, 2018

  • Did IBM overhype Watson Healths AI promise?

    Computerworld | IBM's Watson Health division has been under fire for not delivering on its promise to use AI to enable smarter, more personalized medicine. But IBM officials maintain that hospitals are seeing benefits.

    Nov 14, 2018

  • Celgene Doubles Down on Dragonfly Pays $50M to Expand Cancer Pact

    Xconomy | Celgene's collaboration with Dragonfly Therapeutics is less than 18 months old, but the pharmaceutical company is already expanding the alliance. Celgene

    Nov 14, 2018