Big data and Google BigQuery improve cancer drug development by detecting bacteria | Computer Weekly
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"One of the reasons we founded the company was the frustration that, when you look after people as a clinician, you spot that people respond very, very differently to treatments, and often it's difficult to understand why... Bacteria, which are really integral to human health, actually underact with pharmaceuticals. We think that is one of the core reasons why drugs can fail in clinical trials."
"Understanding that relationship is all the more important in cancer treatment, where bacteria in the tumour risk blocking potentially life-saving treatments. The relationship between drugs and treatments is extremely complex and hard to predict."
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