{"id":1171,"date":"2016-12-15T18:52:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2018-07-05T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T20:00:26","slug":"jeopardy-winning-computer-crunches-numbers-to-fight-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Jeopardy-Winning Computer Crunches Numbers to Fight ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/409477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/51\/IBM_Watson_w_Jeopardy.jpg\/320px-IBM_Watson_w_Jeopardy.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watson on Jeopardy stage set at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Photo by Atomic Taco.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barrow Neurological Institute is working with IBM\u2019s Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, Watson, to identify treatment targets for Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.<\/p>\n<p>ALS is a poorly understood neuromuscular disease with only limited treatment options. Its capacity to strike anyone, at any time, seemingly without pattern, has puzzled researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/409477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BM\u2019s Watson Computer Helps Barrow Identify New ALS Genes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrow Neurological Institute is working with IBM\u2019s Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, Watson, to identify treatment targets for Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. ALS is a poorly understood neuromuscular disease with only limited treatment options. Its capacity to strike anyone, at any time, seemingly without pattern, has puzzled researchers. Read\/listen to my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jeopardy-Winning Computer Crunches Numbers to Fight ALS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,76,94,82,85,67,475,3,13],"tags":[1246,1220,1245,654],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-health","category-mathematics","category-medicine","category-neuroscience-science","category-science","category-technology","tag-als","tag-barrow-neurological-institute","tag-ibm","tag-lou-gehrig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}