The inventor and author speaks onstage at the Techonomy conference in Tucson about his new book on human thought and the themes that stem from it. Kurzweil spoke to Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick about his new book on human thought, “How to Create a Mind,” and the various themes that stem from it. Their talk was varied and at times scattered — with a topic this big, you can imagine the temptation of tangents — but Kurzweil had a few choice things to say along the way Continue reading
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Foundation Medicine Announces New Data Using Next-Generation Sequencing to Detect Cancer-Related Mutations Not …
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Foundation Medicine, Inc., a molecular information company that brings comprehensive cancer genomic analysis to routine clinical care, today announced results from two studies using next-generation sequencing (NGS) to provide actionable information about genomic tumor alterations in individual patients cancers across all solid tumor types. The studies, being presented this week in an oral and poster session at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), provide new evidence of the important role and clinical impact of NGS in cancer treatment. Continue reading