Last month, IBM celebrated its centennial, and over that time span, it has made remarkable developments in biomedical technologies: e.g. the first plasmapheresis machine, the first heart-lung bypass machine, lasers that make Lasik eye surgery possible and computational mapping which supported WHO’s smallpox eradication campaign. Its supercomputers have aided drug design, and the Human Genome Project, and today, IBM’s researchers are pioneering DNA transistor chips, and nanopore sequencing, among other things.  MORE