SANTA MONICA, Calif. –- You have been diagnosed with lung cancer. There is a bewildering array of drugs, and combinations of drugs, that may shrink the tumor and prolong your life. Or they could make matters worse and give you terrible side effects. In the past, this decision was mostly a crude guess, and it was often wrong. No longer. Now, your doctor draws blood and tissue, sends the information to a medical Big Data center that, in seconds, sequences your entire genome and, more...Read Full Story

SANTA MONICA, Calif. –- You have been diagnosed with lung cancer. There is a bewildering array of drugs, and combinations of drugs, that may shrink the tumor and prolong your life. Or they could make matters worse and give you terrible side effects. In the past, this decision was mostly …read more Via: huffingtonpost.comRead Full Story

LOS ANGELES, CA - Patrick Soon-Shiong (Image credit: Getty Images North America via @daylife) Abraxane, a cancer chemotherapy made by Celgene, slowed tumor growth and cut the risk of death in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, according to results that will be presented at a conference on gastrointestinal tumors being held by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Patients on a combination of Abraxane and gemcitabine, another chemotherapy, lived for a median 8.5 months, compared...Read Full Story

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NanoH2O, Inc., manufacturer of the most efficient and cost effective reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for desalination, today announced that it has been ...Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CODA Holdings, a leading developer of all-electric vehicles and advanced battery systems purpose-built for transportation and energy storage applications , today ...Read Full Story