Sofia Genetics is machine learning is speeing up cancer diagnosis (Wired UK)

Jurgi Camblong plans to work with "liquid biopsies" making the process less invasive and faster This article was first published in the June 2016 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. Jurgi Camblong is diagnosing cancer using thousands of people's DNA. The 38-year-old Sophia Genetics co-founder detects cancer in the lungs, skin, ovaries and breast, as well as congenital diseases, by sequencing the genomes of patient's tissue samples – then uses machine learning to compare the results and suggest the most effective treatments. "The problem is not producing the content or the data but really analysing to find the important information so you can act on a disease," says Camblong.