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Sino-U.S. Symposium brings researchers to Stanford to discuss precision health, big data
Last week, more than 300 health researchers from China and the United States converged at Stanford for the ninth Sino-U.S. Symposium on Medicine in the 21st …
A recipe for disaster: Stanford researchers identify mutations that contribute to rare blood cancers
“One thing we’ve learned about cancers is that each has its own unique recipe for malignancy. Some use the same ingredients and some a have …
How the FDA is promoting data sharing and transparency to support innovations in public health
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
A look at the MyHeart Counts app and the potential of mobile technologies to improve human health
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
Discussing patient participation in medical research: “We had to take this into our own hands”
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
A look at aging and longevity in this “unprecedented” time in history
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
Parents turn to data after son is diagnosed with ultra-rare disease
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt explains why “biology is information rich” at Big Data in Biomedicine
Keynote talks and presentations from the 2015 Big Data in Biomedicine conference at Stanford are now available on the Stanford YouTube channel. To continue the …
Widely prescribed heartburn drugs may heighten heart-attack risk
Heartburn - that burning sensation in the chest that occurs when stomach acid rises up into your esophagus - has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do …
At Big Data in Biomedicine, Stanford’s Lloyd Minor focuses on precision health
In the next decade, Stanford Medicine will lead the biomedical revolution in precision health, Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, told attendees of the final day of …
At Big Data in Biomedicine, Nobel laureate Michael Levitt and others talk computing and crowdsourcing
Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, PhD, has been using big data since before data was big. A professor of structural biology at Stanford, Levitt's simulations of …
On the move: Big Data in Biomedicine goes mobile with discussion on mHealth
Ida Sim, MD, PhD, would like to prescribe data as easily as she orders a blood test or a prescription for antibiotics. Sim, a professor …
Big Data in Biomedicine panelists: Genomics’ future is bright, thanks to data-science tools
Stanford's annual Big Data in Biomedicine began this morning with a "breathtaking set of talks," as described by Russ Altman, MD, PhD, a Stanford professor of bioengineering, genetics …
Big Data in Biomedicine conference kicks off today
The third annual Big Data in Biomedicine conference kicks off today on the Stanford campus. The three-day event brings together thought leaders from academia, information …
“An extremely interesting time to be a geneticist”: Using big data to identify rare diseases
With cheaper, faster genetic sequencing, researchers are able to pinpoint rare gene variants that may be contributing to disease. But to find "the actual, causal …