Microsoft announces cancer research project with The Jackson Laboratory

LAS VEGAS—When it comes to fighting cancer, physicians have more data at their fingertips than ever before.

Perhaps, it may feel sometimes, too much data.

By some estimates, there are almost 2,000 new papers published every day including 200 linked to cancer, said Susan Mockus, director of product innovation and strategic commercialization at The Jackson Laboratory, an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution also known as JAX and headquartered in Bar Harbor, Maine. Read more

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