Watson Tackles the Genomic Interpretation Gap

A fascinating article was just published by Ariana Cha in the Washington Post describing how IBM’s Watson is being used at 14 major cancer centers to help interpret genomic data. The program is still in the early stages, which means that Watson is still...

Where Are the Innovative Diagnostics Companies?

“It’s not quite ‘circle-the-wagons’ time around here, but there definitely isn’t much appetite for trying new things.” This was the assessment shared with me recently by an executive at a leading diagnostics company when asked to...

The Two Biggest Ideas for Personalized Medicine

Nature recently published two articles, within a day of each other as it would happen, that describe challenges confronting the two biggest ideas for advancing personalized medicine. One-Person Trials The first idea, described in an article by Nicholas J. Schork,...