John Seelmeyer

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August 6, 2012
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Software firms draw investors

Sometime during the fourth quarter, Reno-based First Warning Systems Inc. expects to begin European marketing of a sophisticated technology that, its executives say, can detect breast cancers years earlier than traditional screening tools such as mammography.The company's sensors, which might be placed in a garment that looks like a sports bra, collect temperature data from a patient's body twice a minute for 12 hours.The data then is run through predictive analytics software artificial intelligence, essentially that can identify temperature anomalies that might indicate the presence of a tumor in a very early stage."The bread and butter of this company is …

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