If immunotherapy has the cancer community riveted on the treatment side, liquid biopsies are equally exciting on the diagnostics end. And IBM is bringing its research heft to bear on the world of liquid biopsy with an intent to build a lab-on-a-chip technology that can separate particles at the nanoscale.

LAS CRUCES - The business of the arts can help drive the economy in New Mexico, said a group of artists, entrepreneurs and others who gathered recently to talk shop.

Staff for U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., hosted the discussion allowing residents to share their ideas about stimulating arts businesses, improving access to the arts and creating more arts-related jobs in Las Cruces and throughout New Mexico. Discussions surrounded initiatives in the Comprehensive Resources for Entrepreneurs in the Arts to Transform the Economy (CREATE) Act, a bill introduced by Udall in March at a gathering in Washington, D.C. The bill would help artists, entrepreneurs and workers employed in cultural education and tourism better access federal programs and resources to grow their business and share artwork with local communities, according to a news release. The discussion was part of a series of conversations held throughout the state.

If you want to see the tangible results of hard work and determination, tune into the 2016 Olympics. There you'll find more than a few great examples of people at the top of their game.

"For most elite competitions like the Olympics and Athletics World Championships, the world governing body publishes standards in advance of the competitions," says motivational speaker Mike Lipkin, author of Star Power: How to Be Unstoppable Through the Nine Star Social Values. "If you’re selected to compete at the event, you know you’re literally among the best in the world," Lipkin explains, "You’ve qualified to perform at the highest level against the best of the best."

ZENA, Okla. — From the sofa in his living room, Clinton Creason can see the electric pole outside that his father staked 70 years ago to bring power to this remote area of hilly cattle pastures.

Electricity came late here but transformed life on the farm. It provided bright light to study by and freed families from the tedium of washing clothes by hand and cutting wood for the cook stove.

Image: Clinton Creason beneath the fiber line that delivers high-speed internet to his home in Zena, Okla. Credit Nick Oxford for The New York Times

Everyone knows that mentoring relationships are one important avenue for professional learning. Young people are taught to seek out senior executives in their organization, function, industry, or geographical location who can help them learn the ropes, share knowledge, teach new skills, broaden their network and, in some cases, fast track their careers. Less talked about, but just as important, are the benefits and learning that mentors can derive from mentees.

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games are opening in Rio de Janeiro amid environmental and health concerns ranging from the Zika virus to polluted competition waters. Brazil, which hosted the World Cup in 2014, is suffering from a deep recession and a political crisis. While the International Olympic Committee touts host cities’ economic legacy, the immense operational challenge of running a mega event creates intense logistical, security, and financial pressures. For ideas on how to improve future Olympics, I spoke with Chris Dempsey, a founding member of the group that defeated Boston’s bid for the 2024 Summer Games. The former Bain & Company consultant argues that recurring cost overruns and mothballed venues highlight the need for the Olympics to change its business model.

Update July 28, 2016: EU and US strengthen their collaboration on eHealth IT

In December 2010, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the European Commission's DG CONNECT signed a Memorandum of UnderstandingWeb Site Disclaimers (MoU) for transatlantic Cooperation on eHealth/Health IT.

In the spring of 2013, DG CONNECT and HHS published a first Roadmap of MoU actionsWeb Site Disclaimers, focusing on two priority areas (work-streams):

Standards development to foster transnational interoperability of electronic health information and communication technology, Workforce skills to develop and expand the Health IT workforce in Europe and the US.

It turns out the world’s smartest supercomputer is a pretty good doctor, too.

Five years after dominating geniuses in its debut on Jeopardy!, IBM’s Watson is still putting human intelligence to shame.

The artificial intelligence machine correctly diagnosed a 60-year-old woman’s rare form of leukemia within 10 minutes — a medical mystery that doctors had missed for months at the University of Tokyo.

Image: IBM’s Watson was able to come up with the proper diagnosis after sifting through 20 million cancer research papers within 10 minutes. (AP)

Whether you’re a compulsive snacker, a lunch at your desker, or an I’ve not even got the time to eater, we all need to start taking more lunch breaks. In the UK alone, only 29 percent of employees get a full hour lunch break. Two thirds say they can’t even take 20 minutes. So why do people not take lunch? Partly, it’s more difficult now our days revolve around technology, and particularly when so much of what we do is taken up with emails. It means our working day tends to be less blocked out, and finding time when you could always be going through your emails is more difficult.

Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to decrease, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. I suspect the exuberance for an IPO is still being driven by the highly visible successes of several companies a few years ago, including Facebook, Yelp, and Twitter. Everyone dreams of becoming a billionaire overnight.

Prolonged sitting, such as watching a lot of television every day, may increase your risk of dying from a blood clot in the lung, according to a new open-access research letter published July 26 in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.

A lung blood clot (pulmonary embolism) usually begins as a clot in the leg or pelvis as a result of inactivity and slowed blood flow (deep vein thrombosis). If the clot breaks free, it can travel to a lung and become lodged in a small blood vessel, where it is especially dangerous.

Image: Deep vein thrombosis (credit: Blausen.com staff)

Startups often lack the credibility and legitimacy required to convince customers. Trade shows appear as an easy way to face these prospects and demo the efficiency of a product, even though it is amongst the most expensive and complex marketing and sales strategies. This is why, as a startup founder, you must carefully plan early on for your next trade show and pick the right strategy and tools to reach your goals.

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Some of the most original people in history achieved their level of fame or legend because they wouldn’t stop coming up with ideas. Sometimes—like in the case of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who procrastinated for months before beginning work on his famous Fallingwater—they know when to procrastinate to give themselves time to develop and refine their ideas.

Before 2000 tech entrepreneurship was mainly about inventing useful things and bringing them to market. Today it’s about winning a business game with fewer winners and enormous stakes. Inventors have a smaller chance of enjoy the rewards of building a substantial company.

The world economy continues its transformation as companies’ global operating footprints evolve based on new opportunities, challenges and technology. With growing political uncertainty, as well as new risks and disruption ushered in by evolving technologies, companies have to navigate an increasingly complex international operating environment. This tenth edition of IBM’s Global Location Trends report outlines the latest trends in corporate location selection and how today’s global dynamics influence where companies locate, expand their businesses and create jobs around the world.

Leaders in cities, metropolitan areas, and states across the country continue to seek ways to reenergize the American economy in a way that works better for more people. To support those efforts, this report provides an update on the changing momentum and geography of America’s advanced industries sector—a group of 50 R&D- and STEM (science-technology-engineering-mathematics)-worker intensive industries the vitality of which will be essential for supporting any broadly shared prosperity in U.S. regions.

Will better training and coaching lead to new records, or do drugs and technology determine the score? Explore the science of the Games with these articles

But it’s safe to say it’s happening. Entrepreneurship in the U.S. is changing. Increasingly, small businesses are being started by Asians, blacks, Latinos, and other non-white minorities. But which minority is steering that growth is somewhat debatable, as two prominent reports on entrepreneurship released in the past few weeks show.

Who says the American Dream is dead? 

A new report from the Kauffman Index of Startup Activity shows that 550,000 Americans launch new businesses each month, keeping with an upward trend in entrepreneurship in recent years. 

Undeniably, open office environments may be conducive to the sharing of information and ideas. But they can also lead to too many distractions and to inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Office workers are interrupted on average every 11 minutes. This can be a problem for modern workers given that it takes 25 minutes to get into a creative and engaged work flow in which you are able to perform to your full potential.