Medical Research

A loyal reader tipped me off to a recent article in The New Yorker entitled "A.I. Versus M.D." The article is written by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, a well known oncologist and author of The Emperor of all Maladies. This article, the book and the...

Leica Biosystems announced that it will demonstrate cutting- edge technology, the Aperio VERSA digital pathology system, at the American Association of Cancer Researchers’ meeting in Washington, DC April 1 – 5, 2017. Designed for the most...

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and PathAI, a company that develops artificial intelligence technology for pathology, are collaborating with the aim to develop solutions that improve the precision...

Last week a loyal reader sent me a link to an article on Yahoo! that headlined "Dogs detect breast cancer from bandage: researchers" from a French news agency. The article goes on to report that specially trained German Shepherds could...

Dr. Bruce Friedman over at Lab Soft News has an interesting post today on "The "Why" and "How" of Academic Tweeting". Many of you know that Bruce is widely considered the grandfather of pathology informatics, coining the term decades ago,...

By Simon Häger, Product manager Sectra Digital Pathology Many pathology labs are currently switching from glass-based reviews using a microscope, to a computer-based workflow for reviewing digital images. This transition is particularly...