Bio-IT World October 24, 2019
A cure for the common cold—both a cliché and metaphor to describe a medical impossibility—isn’t so far-fetched anymore: Researchers around the globe continue to crunch data searching for a vaccine that can neutralize an estimated 160 rhinovirus strains. When that happens, expect the news to dominate headlines for weeks.
Meanwhile, thousands of exceptionally promising healthcare milestones—particularly in the areas of bone marrow matching, disease prevention, cancer research and predictive analytics—are occurring at unprecedented rates because they’re taking advantage of: a dizzying accumulation of exploding amounts of real-time data; flexible, modern data platforms that can run anywhere—from the edge to the cloud including hybrid cloud and multi-cloud; and continuing advancements in AI-powered data analytics allowing them to ask bigger questions, gain...