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Artificial Intelligence in healthcare predicted to grow tenfold in next five years

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising multiple areas of information technology and has exciting potential for applications in biomedicine. It is predicted that the use of AI in healthcare will grow tenfold in the next five years.

24 Feb 2016

Increasing medication adherence: an interview with Dr Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes

Adherence applies to multiple levels of healthcare. Before a drug goes on the market it has to undergo testing in clinical trials: participants take the study drug and report how well the drug works, along with any side effects.

22 Feb 2016

Creating NGS solutions in routine clinical diagnostics

Sophia Genetics, the global leader in Data-Driven Medicine (DDM), announced today the signing of a new strategic partnership with Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT).

From Integrated DNA Technologies 17 Feb 2016

Electronic health records could help identify people who have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes

In 2012, a group of UCLA researchers set out to mine thousands of electronic health records for a more accurate and less expensive way to identify people who have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. The researchers got much more than they bargained for.

16 Feb 2016

Nine researchers win EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards

Nine researchers, working on innovative projects that promise to improve healthcare diagnosis and treatment, across a wide spread of issues, were today announced as the first recipients of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's (EPSRC) Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards.

15 Feb 2016

CMU researchers create robotically-driven experimentation system to reduce drug discovery cost

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have created the first robotically driven experimentation system to determine the effects of a large number of drugs on many proteins, reducing the number of necessary experiments by 70 percent.

11 Feb 2016

NOF provides evidence-based guidance to help children and adolescents attain optimal bone health

The National Osteoporosis Foundation today released a position statement providing evidence-based guidance and a national implementation strategy to help children and adolescents achieve optimal bone health, or what is known as "peak bone mass," early in life.

10 Feb 2016

Penn investigators devise new method to map 'transcriptome'

A new way of mapping the "transcriptome" -- the collection of RNA read-outs that are expressed by a cell's active genes -- has been devised by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

10 Feb 2016

Study provides window into the brain changes that link mindfulness meditation with health-related benefits

Over the past decade, mindfulness meditation has been shown to improve a broad range of health and disease outcomes, such as slowing HIV progression and improving healthy aging. Yet, little is known about the brain changes that produce these beneficial health effects.

5 Feb 2016

PTC showcases Vuforia, ThingWorx and new ThingX technology during ThingEvent broadcast

The largest IOT-focused audience ever assembled joined PTC in taking ‘a fresh look at things’ during its recent ThingEvent™ broadcast, where the company showcased Vuforia, ThingWorx, and new ThingX™ technology to demonstrate how augmented reality can change the way companies create, operate and service smart, connected things.

4 Feb 2016

CMU joins $12 million research project to reverse-engineer the brain's secret algorithms

Carnegie Mellon University is embarking on a five-year, $12 million research effort to reverse-engineer the brain, seeking to unlock the secrets of neural circuitry and the brain's learning methods. Researchers will use these insights to make computers think more like humans.

4 Feb 2016

Researchers link symptoms of schizophrenia with the brain's anatomical characteristics

An international team, made up of researchers from the University of Granada, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of South Florida, has linked the symptoms of schizophrenia with the anatomical characteristics of the brain, by employing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

1 Feb 2016

New machine-learning technique could be used to uncover previously unknown features of organisms

A powerful new machine-learning technique can be applied to large datasets in the biological sciences to uncover previously unknown features of organisms and their genes, according to a team led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

22 Jan 2016

Singularity University, BD establish collaborative relationship to tackle global healthcare challenges

Singularity University, a benefit corporation focused on empowering leaders to leverage exponentially growing technologies to tackle the world's greatest challenges, and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, have established a collaborative relationship where BD will leverage SU's expertise, innovation space, tools and inspiration to create new growth opportunities for healthcare and BD.

21 Jan 2016

AiCure closes $12.25 million in Series A fundraising round

AiCure, an artificial intelligence company connecting the world's patients to better treatments and improved health, has closed a Series A fundraising round with $12.25 million. The consortium is led by New Leaf Venture Partners, with additional participation from Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Biomatics Capital, established by Boris Nikolic, former Chief Advisor for Science and Technology to Bill Gates.

11 Jan 2016

Interpretation of images starts in the retina

Tübingen researchers have shown that image processing in the eye is more extensive than previously thought. They investigated the channels that transmit information from the eye to the brain.

7 Jan 2016

Sentrian selected as a 2015 Global Digital Health 100 company

Sentrian, the Remote Patient Intelligence company aspiring to eliminate all preventable hospitalization, has been selected as a 2015 Global Digital Health 100 company by the Journal of mHealth.

5 Jan 2016

Pathway Genomics secures over $40 million in Series E financing

Pathway Genomics Corporation, a global precision medicine company with mobile health solutions, today announced it has successfully raised over $40 million in a Series E financing.

5 Jan 2016

High diversity among circulating tumor cells predicts survival, treatment resistance in prostate cancer patients

Research teams at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Epic Sciences have found that greater diversity among circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of advanced prostate cancer patients predicts not only shorter overall survival, but also the development of resistance to key anti-androgen therapies.

4 Jan 2016

World's largest database for cancer drug discovery revolutionised by 3D techniques

THE world's largest database for cancer drug discovery has been revolutionised by adding 3D structures of faulty proteins and maps of cancer's communication networks, according to Cancer Research UK-funded research published in Nucleic Acid Research today (Monday).

4 Jan 2016

Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Latest Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare predicted to grow tenfold in next five years

Increasing medication adherence: an interview with Dr Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes

Creating NGS solutions in routine clinical diagnostics

Electronic health records could help identify people who have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes

Nine researchers win EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards

CMU researchers create robotically-driven experimentation system to reduce drug discovery cost

NOF provides evidence-based guidance to help children and adolescents attain optimal bone health

Penn investigators devise new method to map 'transcriptome'

Study provides window into the brain changes that link mindfulness meditation with health-related benefits

PTC showcases Vuforia, ThingWorx and new ThingX technology during ThingEvent broadcast

CMU joins $12 million research project to reverse-engineer the brain's secret algorithms

Researchers link symptoms of schizophrenia with the brain's anatomical characteristics

New machine-learning technique could be used to uncover previously unknown features of organisms

Singularity University, BD establish collaborative relationship to tackle global healthcare challenges

AiCure closes $12.25 million in Series A fundraising round

Interpretation of images starts in the retina

Sentrian selected as a 2015 Global Digital Health 100 company

Pathway Genomics secures over $40 million in Series E financing

High diversity among circulating tumor cells predicts survival, treatment resistance in prostate cancer patients

World's largest database for cancer drug discovery revolutionised by 3D techniques

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Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

Artificial Intelligence News and Research

Latest Artificial Intelligence News and Research

AI In Healthcare eBook

Small solutions for big problems in drug discovery and delivery

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

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