Nebula Genomics and Longenisis, two leading firms in artificial intelligence and blockchain technology for healthcare, are developing a platform for the storage and exchange of genomic data, according to an announcement May 15. According to the release, they also aim to establish a new research field of “life data economics.” Nebula Genomics is a San Francisco-based biotechnical company that uses blockchain to “build a marketplace” for clinical data. Longenesis is a Hong Kong-based partnership between Insilico Medicine and the Bitfury Group, which makes blockchain platforms for the exchange of health data. The companies will reportedly apply artificial intelligence and blockchain …

An unnamed employee of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) who allegedly used the organization’s supercomputers to mine bitcoins at two different universities should be “debarred,” recommends the most recent NSF semiannual report to Congress. The news of the mining was first reported in June of this year, and the recently released report is dated September. The NSF said the employee would be “suspended” during their investigation of the claim. That investigation has now, apparently, been completed. Furthermore, the NSF claims that they should be given all of the employee’s bitcoins, which they’ll convert to fiat. The unnamed researcher is …