IBM WATSON HEALTH and Quest Diagnostics announced the launch of IBM Watson Genomics from Quest Diagnostics, a service that combines cognitive computing with genomic tumor sequencing. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will supplement Watson’s corpus of scientific data with OncoKB, a precision oncology knowledge base to help inform precision treatment options for cancer patients. Watson’s...
While doing somewhat-routine reporting on this year’s Senate Appropriations Committee bills, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, quickly realized that he was seeing a full bipartisan rejection of President Donald J. Trump’s plan to defund and therefore dismantle biomedical research in the United States.
