NIH-funded project aims to build a ‘Google’ for biomedical data

Every year, the National Institutes of Health spends billions of dollars for biomedical research, ranging from basic science investigations into cell processes to clinical trials. The results are published in journals, presented in academic meetings, and then — building off of their findings — researchers move on to their next project.

But what happens to the data that’s collected and what more could we learn from it? If we aggregated all the data from countless years of research, might we learn something new about ourselves, the diseases that infect us, and possible treatments?

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