Ger­many's Mer­ck forges JV with Thiel's Palan­tir to har­ness da­ta to at­tack can­cer

With the in­ci­dence of can­cer ex­plod­ing in most parts of the world, har­ness­ing the pow­er of da­ta has be­come im­per­a­tive to un­lock­ing so­lu­tions for one of the ti­tan­ic pub­lic health chal­lenges in this cen­tu­ry. As such, Ger­many’s Mer­ck KGaA has tied up with Pe­ter Thiel’s da­ta min­ing com­pa­ny Palan­tir Tech­nolo­gies un­der a joint ven­ture called Syn­tropy that will al­low sci­en­tists and re­searchers to tap in­to a col­lab­o­ra­tive tech plat­form to ad­vance can­cer re­search.

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