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Medicine’s New Stethoscope

Detecting cancers with a blood test sounds simple enough, but is it just hype or are liquid biopsies here to stay?

How To Win The Nobel Prize Of Supercomputing

Winning the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing requires a team effort, says Professor Fu Haohuan, a member of the 12-man team that won the competition in 2016.

When Your Doctor Knows It All

IBM Watson is changing the practice of healthcare in both hospitals and homes with its ability to learn and apply huge volumes of information.

Over the hundred years that they have been used, floating-point numbers have become so entrenched that replacing them would be like “boiling the ocean.” But Dr. John Gustafson believes he has done just that.

High Performance Healthcare

Thanks to all the data that is already available, the healthcare sector is ripe for a data-driven transformation. Here’s how supercomputers can make a difference.

When T Spells Trouble For Cancer

The world’s largest clinical trial of T-cells for cancer is being conducted by a Singapore-based biotech company, Tessa Therapeutics. Sim Shuzhen finds out more.

AI On Cloud Nine

The convergence of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is underway. Alibaba Cloud’s Dr. Min Wanli shares his insights on this revolution.

Features

Forging New Paths In Cancer Diagnostics

HistoIndex is partnering with the University of Malaya and Pathomics Health to roll out an integrative diagnostics platform for the holistic analysis of patient tumor biopsies.

In the Lab

Soy Supplement Reduces Muscle Loss In Mice

Mice fed on a diet supplemented with a soy isoflavone had reduced muscle loss following experimentally-induced nerve damage, researchers say.

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