Harvard and Merck Team to Find Immuno-Oncology Targets »
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MIT Professor Leverages Machine Learning to Find Promising Cancer Treatments »
Dr. Dimitris Bertsimas, professor of operational research at MIT has devised a machine-learning model to help advise patients and doctors about the relative benefits of various combinational chemotherapy treatments, and help researchers predict the toxicity and survivability of new combinations of drugs that have previously not been tried together.
A New Weapon in the Battle Against Cancer »
A new Cambridge-based company hopes to leverage the body's inter-cellular deliver system for cancer diagnosis and treatment.
To Cure Cancer, Targeted Therapies Best Future Bet »
“Cancer medicine does not ask us to do precision medicine as a side note; cancer medicine ask us to do precision medicine as a basis,” said Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, at the opening keynote of the Boston Children’s Hospital Global Pediatric Innovation Summit on Monday.
Diagnostic Tool Captures Cancer With iPhone Camera »
Smartphones already help manage chronic pain, facilitate meditation and even prescribe corrective lenses. But what if they could be used to diagnose cancer as well?
Liquid Biopsies Could Make Cancer a Manageable Disease »
Mapping Microscopic Disease with Big Data »
TEDxBeaconStreet Announces “Ask the Speaker” Forum on Medstro »
TEDxBeaconStreet, one of the most innovative TEDx events in the world, and Medstro, the social network for physicians and medical students, today announced that three of the speakers from the 2014 TEDxBeaconStreet, held on November 15-16, will be available to answer questions directly on the "TEDxBeaconStreet Ask the Speaker" forum. All three speakers spoke about topics related to…
