Amgen’s Sean Bruich, senior vice president of artificial intelligence and data, (left) and chief technology officer David Reese: “Most of the talent [in AI] lies outside biopharma, not within it,” Reese said.
Amgen
When Dr. David Reese, Amgen’s…
Category: 5. Health
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Snakes are often the villains. A new book gives them a fair shake
Slither
Stephen S. Hall
Grand Central Publishing, $30Snakes don’t often get to be the protagonists. From the biblical tempter in the Garden of Eden to the eponymous snakes on a plane, your stereotypical serpent often gets cast…
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Scientists Turn Paper Into Plastic
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a biodegradable plastic made from trees, a $3 million prize for scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider, why we’re one step closer to a holodeck and more. You can sign up to get…
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Driving the CAR to fight acute myeloid leukemia
One main goal of anti-cancer therapies is to kill tumor cells without affecting the surrounding normal cells. Therefore, many drugs are designed to target tumor-specific antigens, which are molecules only expressed by cancer cells. However, it…
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New strategy may enable cancer monitoring from blood tests alone
A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following treatment, according to a study by Weill Cornell…
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An overlooked organ may help the ovary function
When an expansive curlicue of tissue sitting below the ovaries was discovered more than a century ago, it was dismissed as useless and erased from biology textbooks. Biologists now are taking a new look at the structure and its…
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How Health Insurers Can Fix The Broken Patient Experience
Dominique Entzminger, a physician assistant of family medicine, wears a stethoscope during an … More
In response to mounting scrutiny over medical claim denials and patient experience,…
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Pornography may be commonplace, but a growing body of research shows it causes lasting harm to the brain and relationships
While pornography has been present throughout human history in various forms, such as ancient erotic art to more modernized motion pictures, research shows an increase in use over recent decades given the rise of technology and…
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1,701 Pounds Of Butter Recalled Due To Possible Fecal Contamination
Agri-Mark is voluntarily recalling 186 cases or 1,701 pounds of its Extra Creamy Premium Butter, Sea … More
When buying butter, you typically…
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Genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order
Bioinformaticians from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the university in Linköping (Sweden) have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. In the journal Science, they describe that the…
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