Complex Insight - Understanding our world

Health care in the United States certainly needs an overhaul. The question is whether that overhaul will come from artificially intelligent doctors. IBM  has launched partnerships with insurance giant WellPoint and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and is expected offer Watson commercially to hospitals within the next few years. Wired article discusses the approach and pros and cons as seen by some doctors. Worth a read for a quick intro to modern AI comprising data mining and big data topics as an approach to treatment diagnostics in healthcare. Click on the image or the title to learn more.

To a generation which grew up with computers, the field of synthetic biology - creating artificial life forms - is a story they can relate to, said American geneticist Craig Venter.

Article based on  a talk given by Mark Boguski of Harvard Medical School at a recent healthcare conference in Boston.  Article is by Jim Golden a practising LIfe Science data scientist and worth reading.