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Fuck cancer. Every year in the United States, nearly 1.75 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed and over 600,000 succumb to the disease. The National Cancer Institute estimates that there are over 15 million cancer s...
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There are more than 90 million pet dogs in the United States. Every year, approximately six million of them will be diagnosed with some form of cancer and, sadly, many will succumb to the disease. Cancer, at its most bas...
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Providing healthcare to the growing Medicare population is one of the biggest oncoming challenges that America is facing. It is a train barreling down the tracks towards us all: our population is both growing and aging, ...
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One of the greatest missed opportunities in health care is all of the “dark data” out there — this includes all the critically useful data sets detailing specific patient treatments and health outcomes that are...
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Biology is elegant, but it’s rarely simple. Following the completion of the $3 billion Human Genome Project in the early 2000s, scientists were surprised to discover that the human genome contained only 20,000 or so ge...
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The discovery of small molecule drugs follows a well-honed playbook. You first discover the drug target, then discover the lead drugs that can hit those targets, optimize those leads, and then enter pre-clinical testing....
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Modern computer chips are a marvel of human engineering. With billions of transistors, they are among the most complex devices we’ve ever created, yet they operate with precision and digital accuracy. How did this beco...
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This conversation between the members of a16z’s bio team — including general partners Jorge Conde and Vijay Pande; Malinka Walaliyadde; and Jeffrey Low (the interviewer) — takes a quick pulse on where w...
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As history has shown, innovation in biology is really hard. Long timelines and expensive, unexpected failures are hallmarks of the biopharmaceutical and diagnostics industry. Software has been attempting to disrupt the i...