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10
Jun
2021

T-cell Diagnostic Tests: COVID-19 Pushed Us, and We Can See Where This Leads

In late February 2020, when it became clear that COVID-19 was spreading around the world, our senior management team at Adaptive Biotechnologies took a gamble. We had a hunch that our ability to evaluate T-cell immunity, combined with advanced bioinformatics, could help the scientific community better understand the novel coronavirus. The entire world, it seemed, was focused on B-cell derived...
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27
May
2021

From Fitness To Flourish: Expanding the Scope of Digital Exercise

Sometimes the most relevant digital health companies have the least elaborate technology. More than a decade ago, I discussed UpToDate, a fairly basic medicine e-textbook, served through a web-based app. It was then, and still remains, a go-to site for timely, high-quality medical information relevant to clinicians. There’s nothing fancy about it, it just works. Recently, I discovered a similar...
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15
May
2021

Learning From Post-It: Your Solution Is Not My Problem – Except When It is

A frequent – and frequently correct – critique of entrepreneurs bearing technology is “your solution is not my problem.”  Healthcare – among many other domains, perhaps all domains – has been beset by “solutionism,” the idea that my clever technology will solve your hideously complex problem.  But perhaps it makes no more sense to instinctively reject this mindset as it...
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12
May
2021

Aducanumab & the Alzheimer’s Moonshot: What Would It Be Worth to Keep Your Mind?

Have you ever met someone with Alzheimer’s disease? Odds are you probably have. Odds are that question calls to mind the face of a beloved grandparent, neighbor, or family friend whom you’ve stopped by to visit, nervously clenching a bouquet of flowers. You greet them hopefully and wonder if they’ll remember you this time. America’s population is aging. About 6.2...
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