"Healthcare today certainly falls far short of the vision portrayed in Star Trek," Paul Jacobs, the head of Qualcomm, says. But by partnering with the X Prize Foundation, his firm hopes to drive medical technology in that direction.
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January 31, 2012
Fred Giovannitti is that rarity: a man who divides his time between two extremely disparate careers. Giovannitti makes his living giving tattoos to discerning customers in Las Vegas, but he also spends a considerable amount of time as the creative...
January 31, 2012
But this is Peter Diamandis, the fast-talking, hand-chopping impresario of the tech and space worlds. “The system is broken, access to health care is inconvenient, inefficient, bureaucratic—at worst, it’s even inaccurate,” he intones, striding on the...
December 13, 2011
In 2004, thousands showed up in Mojave, California for the triumphant launch of SpaceShipOne as part of the Ansari X PRIZE competition. If you had asked them what they viewed as the next big challenge in commercial spaceflight, many would have said: “...
December 13, 2011
Designer Burt Rutan, billionaire Paul Allen, rocketman Elon Musk and former NASA boss Mike Griffin are teaming to develop an air-launch rocket system that would use a super aircraft the size of two 747s to carry a liquid-fueled SpaceX booster to 30,...
December 01, 2011
The Archon Genomics X-Prize is offering $10 million to the first research team to sequence the genomes of 100 people who are age 100 or older. The goal: Get a clear view, for the first time, of what makes centenarians different on a genetic level.
November 29, 2011
Although Perls and his peers around the world have been looking at centenarian DNA for decades, a much more focused project is now getting underway: the Archon Genomic X Prize (AGXP). This bold endeavour seeks to find a fast and cheap way to sequence...
November 28, 2011
This month, the X PRIZE Foundation and Medco Health Solutions, based in Franklin Lakes, N.J., announced a $10-million award to encourage scientists to compete in a contest that could ultimately identify the genes that protect against disease. The...
November 22, 2011
They’ve partnered with the X Prize Foundation, which has offered a $10 million award to whoever can develop a technique to sequence 100 genomes (the full code contained in our DNA) in less than 30 days, at a cost of less than $1,000 per genome. Such a...
November 21, 2011
The X Prize was originally announced in 1996 under the Gateway Arch in St Louis as a tribute to Spirit of St Louis pilot Charles Lindberg. He won the $25,000 Orteig prize for his 1927 non-stop flight from New York to Paris.
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