Genetics

Connecting the dots for health data

Precision medicine requires big data. In order to improve the treatment of individuals with cancer, or to understand rare diseases, scientists and clinicians, as well as AI technologies require access to larger sets of health ...

Oncology & Cancer

Technique predicts tumor response to cancer therapy

A public/private collaboration led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has resulted in a new mathematical modeling technique that can accurately predict the response of tumors in breast cancer patients to ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

China reports zero local virus cases as Delta outbreak retreats

China reported no new domestic coronavirus cases Monday, and Beijing appears poised to bring to heel the pandemic's most serious resurgence in months—driven by the highly contagious Delta variant—with mass testing and ...

Health

Individual privacy and big data uses in public health

In the United States, massive volumes of individual-level data, called "big data," are used for a variety of reasons, including marketing, intelligence gathering and political campaigns. Big data are also vital to public ...

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