Pregnant women and their partners can already peer at an unborn child’s chromosomes: with amniocentesis, they can learn about the presence or, more likely, absence of large-scale genetic defects, often gaining peace of mind. But only a small percentage of parents-to-be take the opportunity, because the procedure is invasive and uncomfortable—a large needle is inserted into the amniotic sac—and causes miscarriage in roughly one in 400 cases.
In the near future, oncologists may be using a finger-size plastic chip with tiny channels to extract a dozen or so cancer cells from a sample of a patient’s blood. Those cells, called circulating tumor cells, could then be screened for genetic disruptions that an oncologist could target with drugs best suited to attacking the tumor. Continued sampling would give doctors a way to monitor whether a treatment is working and decide whether to add or change a drug as the malady evolves.
It was the looming senseof crisis that brought them together. In late April, technologists from IBM, Intel, and Microsoft joined an intimate gathering of computer scientists and geneticists to discuss the big problem with big data: Our data storage requirements are rapidly exceeding the capacity of today’s best storage technologies: magnetic tape, disk drives, and flash memory.
Attempting to harness the power of distributed rooftop solar installations to make its grid more flexible and reliable, New York utility Consolidated Edison is launching a pilot program this summer to link dozens of small solar arrays into a single, software-connected power plant. The utility is working with solar power developer SunPower and energy storage company Sunverge to create a “virtual power plant”—a network of distributed assets that functions as a unified resource on the grid.
This week we learned about the discovery of a cosmic voyager as large as a football field that’s been keeping Earth company for at least 100 years, vast ancient cities hidden in the Cambodian jungle and Elon Musk’s desire to prevent an artificial superintelligence from turning him into its pet.
Frente a lo que se podía pensar, la juventud vasca no ha emigrado más al extranjero o a otras comunidades autónomas como consecuencia de la crisis económica. Y es que un informe de Ikuspegi, el Observatorio Vasco de Inmigración, revela que las salidas de Euskadi de la población joven en la etapa de recesión económica (2008-2014) no muestra grandes diferencias respecto a la etapa de bonanza económica (2000-2007), con una media de algo más de 4.000 salidas anuales desde hace siete años. No obstante, aunque es cierto que ha aumentado en los años de recesión, este incremento no ha sido considerable.
Healthcare, advertising, sales & marketing, and business intelligence startups using AI technologies received the highest number of deals in 2015 compared to other sub-industries; healthcare is dominating 2016 so far.
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