Aug 11, 2016 | Publication
Dr. Kristian Andersen and colleagues unearth flaws in study on Ebola virus mutation rate and genotype variation In a technical comment published in Science, Dr. Kristian Andersen, Director of Infectious Disease Genomics at Scripps Translational Science Institute,...
Jul 20, 2016 | Publication
“We believe that closed-data and closed-algorithm business models in health – at–scale – will hamper scientific progress by blocking the discovery of diverse ways to examine and interpret health data. Longer term, they could increase rather than reduce...
Jul 19, 2016 | Publication
A proof of concept study In November 2014, the Ebola Grand Challenge called for pioneering ideas for new tools that would help health care workers win the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak that, at the time, was ravaging parts of West Africa. Among the...
Jul 13, 2016 | Publication
An examination of telehealth trends, limitations, and future adoption The adoption of telehealth services is on the rise, and according to an article by Dr. Eric Topol and Dr. Ray Dorsey published in the New England Journal of Medicine, will likely spread further over...
Jun 30, 2016 | Publication
Dr. Kristian Andersen and colleagues illustrate how research collaborations help combat outbreaks The recent outbreaks of Ebola and Zika virus have highlighted how health system failures in seemingly geographically remote areas can result in disease vulnerabilities...
Jun 28, 2016 | Publication
Drs. Barrett and Topol outline how smartphones are set to improve medicine Since their mass adoption by the general public less than a decade ago, smartphones have permeated almost every aspect of our daily lives. We use them for everything from banking to turning the...
