09 HR Skills of the Future
When a pathologist needs to diagnose cancer, it requires painstaking scrutiny of biopsy samples to identify cancerous cells. This is the proverbial search for a needle in a haystack, since there could be millions of healthy cells and just a few cancerous ones in any given sample, if cancer is even present in the sample at all. A series of experiments unveiled by Harvard involving the analysis of breast cancer tissue cells showed us a stunning set of results.1 Teams were assigned the task of identifying metastatic cancer cells, because breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, in addition to being one of the most deadly. The task itself holds significance beyond simple identification, because these types ...
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