{"id":63550,"date":"2018-05-04T00:49:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T04:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63550"},"modified":"2018-05-04T00:49:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T04:49:35","slug":"worldquant-hedge-fund-deploys-scientists-for-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/worldquant-hedge-fund-deploys-scientists-for-cancer-research.html","title":{"rendered":"WorldQuant Hedge Fund Deploys Scientists for Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Did you get your smartphone swabbed for germs at Milken? Some 1,000 conference attendees took part this week in this research project, led by Chris Mason, a metagenomicist at Weill Cornell Medicine. The microbial data gathered will help create the first global map to track hot spots of resistance to antibiotics, a growing threat that will likely kill more people than all cancers by 2050, according to Centers for Disease Control data presented at the conference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-02\/worldquant-hedge-fund-deploys-scientists-for-cancer-research\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Did you get your smartphone swabbed for germs at Milken? Some 1,000 conference attendees took part this week in this research project, led by Chris Mason, a metagenomicist at Weill Cornell Medicine. The microbial data gathered will help create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63551,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63550\/revisions\/63551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}