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AI helps Stanford researchers show link between first opioid treatment and addiction

AI helps Stanford researchers show link between first opioid treatment and addiction

The United States is being ravaged by a opioid epidemic that claims tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars every year. THE PROBLEM Dr. Tina Hernandez-Boussard, associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and fellow researchers said they can’t let this continue. “Our goal was to use big data and cutting-edge technologies …

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Stanford Medicine scientists sequence patient's entire genome in just five hours using Nanopore Genome Sequencing, AI and cloud computing

Stanford Medicine scientists sequence patient’s entire genome in just five hours using Nanopore Genome Sequencing, AI and cloud computing

And in less than eight hours, they had diagnosed a child with a rare genetic disease, results that would take weeks of clinical laboratory testing, demonstrating the clinical value of the genomic process. In another major advance in genetic sequencing, scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a method of rapidly sequencing the …

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