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Software provider to Merck taps IBM cloud to fight fake drugs
Cambridge, MA-based Sproxil, which provides tech to combat drug counterfeiting to Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, says the company has harnessed IBM's cloud computing and visualization software to improve its product.
German Merck tracking drugs in Africa with texts
A startup company has taken aim at drug counterfeiting in developing countries with a technology that relies on cell phones and what it refers to on its website as "crowd-sourced pharmacovigilance."
IBM gets personal with biomedical analytics
Big Blue has unleashed its powerful computers to aid doctors in tailoring treatments.
IBM taps 'Watson-type' tech for drug research tool
By now, you've probably heard (at least once) about how IBM's ( $IBM ) Watson supercomputer bested some of the brightest human contestants on the game show Jeopardy! Now the tech giant is using what
Scripps begins world's largest computer-based project against malaria
Malaria may have lost big when IBM's ( $IBM ) Watson supercomputer won Jeopardy! in February. Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA have garnered a portion of Watson's...
IBM cloud aids fight against superbugs
Big Blue's cloud has helped Swiss scientists in their hunt for clues about how certain bacteria form resistance against antibiotics and cause disease. It's perhaps the latest case where the tech
IBM, others herd trial data to cloud
The use of cloud computing for clinical data analysis appears to be catching on, says Patricia Dimond, a principal at BioInsight Consulting, in GEN. But some of the remaining tech hurdles--data
How can IBM's Watson aid pharma researchers?
You might know about how IBM's Watson supercomputer bested human contestants in the game show Jeopardy! in February. But there's also been some thought about what the supercomputer could do to aid
Semiconductor technique could attack MRSA
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria and infectious diseases, like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are big problems in institutions like jails, hospitals and schools where people come in
Sproxil, IBM team for market analytics
Counterfeits-fighter Sproxil is among the start-up companies working with IBM as part of the White House-led Startup America campaign. The campaign is a private-sector alliance intended to boost the
