Brussels, Belgium – Euronext Brussels awarded the best performing listed companies and its’ members during the New Year’s reception. The Small, Medium and Large cap winners are: Deceuninck (DECB), argenx (ARGX), Umicore (UMI). The past year 2017 was a rather special year for the Exchange as it was able to reach the historical record in number of transactions.
Google announced Monday an open source version of DeepVariant, the artificial intelligence tool that last year earned the highest accuracy rating at the precisionFDA’s Truth Challenge.
The open source tool comes as academic medical centers, hospitals, insurance companies and other healthcare organizations are gearing up for if not already embarking on artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning as well as precision medicine and the genomic sequencing that entails.
Biotechnology is defined as the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity). The recent dramatic improvements and progresses in research and achievements in this sector reveal a considerable potential for the improvement of the quality of life but also for the creation of economic value. Therefore, biotech can be considered as key industry for the century.
