Universal blood test from Microsoft and Adaptive is a Google-sized data challenge A novel effort from Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies to diagnose multiple diseases from a single blood test is a data… Read More
No poop required: Researchers devise blood test for gut microbiome diversity using data from defunct startup Arivale If you want to know what’s going on in your gut microbiome, the community of bacteria in our intestines that… Read More
Artificial intelligence scores another victory in diagnosing breast cancer Human doctors once again fell short of artificial intelligence in a test to accurately diagnose breast cancer, adding yet more… Read More
Adaptive Biotechnologies will triple size of its Seattle HQ following IPO Adaptive Biotechnologies is charting a massive expansion of its Seattle headquarters following the completion of a recent initial public offering.… Read More
Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel building mysterious biotech startup, backed by Andreessen Horowitz Sujal Patel has seen a world-changing trend coming before. In 2001, in his mid-20s, he founded data storage technology company… Read More
Microsoft-backed universal blood test could start diagnosing disease ‘within a small number of years’ REDMOND — A groundbreaking system that would use artificial intelligence to diagnose several diseases from a single blood test may… Read More
Say what? University of Washington researchers create smartphone app to detect ear infections Like dirty diapers and sleepless nights, ear infections are just one of those things that come with having a young… Read More
How Microsoft and Adaptive Biotech became ‘a single team’ to build groundbreaking AI diagnostic Every day, thousands of people cross the 520 bridge between Seattle and Bellevue, Wash. But for some of those people,… Read More
Researchers use tiny tricks to pull out precious protein data from a single cell Scientists have developed a technique that can analyze fluid from a single human cell to identify its proteins — which could… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Phoresa is creating a ‘pregnancy-style’ test for infectious diseases Pregnancy tests, even those done in hospitals or clinics, are very straightforward. Some urine plus a detector and you have… Read More
ID Genomics consortium to build national database of bacterial ‘fingerprints’ to help doctors diagnose infection There’s a reason bacteria take up almost an entire kingdom in our map of life: they are an endlessly complex… Read More
Prevencio announces successful study of predictive blood tests for coronary heart disease Prevencio, a Kirkland, Wash., based biotech startup, announced today a successful study on its suite of blood diagnostic tests. The… Read More
