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Mastering Information for Personal Medicine
Sometimes, mastery over the raging influx of information all around us has life and death... Read More
Ever-Expanding Data
One of the biggest challenges for health innovation is to make sense of the exponentially growing mountains of data. View Infographic
Health Records: Digitized and Nationalized?
Your medical records probably consist of fragmented notes—paper documents and computer files—scattered among the various clinics, hospitals and doctor’s offices... Read More
Pioneering Personalized Cancer Care
The realization that cancer is ultimately a disease of mutated genes has driven cancer researchers to ask how this information... Read More
BY THE NUMBERS:
EVER-EXPANDING DATA
The amount of genetic data available, since the dawn of the biotechnology era, has vastly expanded from just 606 base pairs and 680,338 sequences in 1982. The biggest challenge for health technologies will be to process and make sense of the ever-growing banks of information.
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