DOD needs some help digitizing a massive collection of respiratory disease samples

FedScoop: The Department of Defense has the world’s largest collection of pathology specimens, including “invaluable” data from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Now it wants help to digitize it.

Digitizing the collection of more than a hundred years of data —in the form of 55 million glass slides, 31 million paraffin-embedded tissue blocks and 500,000 wet tissue samples — would create a potentially exquisite machine learning database for computers to gain broader understanding of global health issues.

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