Bioverge Monthly — August ‘18

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Sep 6, 2018 · 2 min read

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Suggestic is a new breed of ‘digital therapeutic’ companies using artificial intelligence to decipher the language of food, shortening the path to your health, fitness and wellness goals. With just a little help, we can all make optimal eating choices and prevent the majority of chronic disease and impact our overall health.

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A Few of Our Favorite Stories

Artificial intelligence model “learns” from patient data to make cancer treatment less toxic (MIT News). Machine-learning system determines the fewest, smallest doses that could still shrink brain tumors.

Zombie Gene Helps Elephants Outpace Cancer (Gen News). Long ago, a “dead gene” buried in the genomes of groundhog-sized animals gained the ability to jerk back to life. The gene, called leukemia inhibitory factor 6 (LIF6), stirs when it is alerted to DNA damage.

Clues to Your Health Are Hidden at 6.6 Million Spots in Your DNA (NYT). With a sophisticated new algorithm, scientists have found a way to forecast an individual’s risks for five deadly diseases.

There’s new evidence that the dominant approach to Alzheimer’s may be completely wrong (MarketWatch). Other Alzheimer’s strategies may work better or pair together, experts say, but new drugs are needed.

Private equity is piling into health care (Economist). High prices and stiff competition mean investors must think creatively.

The Next 10 Years Will Be About “Market Networks” (NFX). Market networks will produce a new class of unicorn companies and impact how millions of service professionals will work and earn their living [hint…Bioverge is a market network]

The first gene-silencing drug wins FDA approval (Science News). Nobel Prize–winning discovery — that small double-stranded RNA molecules can silence genes by interrupting the translation of DNA’s instructions into proteins — is finally delivering on its medical promise.

PBS Announces KEN BURNS PRESENTS THE GENE: AN INTIMATE HISTORY (PBS). Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., and acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns will collaborate on the new documentary inspired by Mukherjee’s best-selling 2016 book, The Gene: An Intimate History.

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