September 24, 2014
Captions is aiming big in its hopes to bring real-time language translation to Google Glass and other devices. Such an app could have a huge impact in education, travel, medicine and emergency services.
Best yet, they’ve caught the eye of the Google’s Glass tea...
When surgeon Brent Ponce wore Google Glass during a shoulder replacement, the ghostly hand of a remote collaborator coached him along.
Brent Ponce wasnt the first surgeon to bring Google Glass into the operating room, but he may have been the first to use it as a truly collaborative tool.<...
Physicians are most satisfied when they deli...
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013
A recent study of work hours of medical interns in the new era of duty hour regulations produced an interesting side finding, which is that modern medical interns spend about 40% of their time at a computer [1]. To some, this prompted concern that computers were drawi...Bioservo Technologies, a Swedish firm, has developed a powered glove to help people who experience weakness in the hand. The Robotic SEM Glove strengthens the user...
A graphene photothermoelectric detector. The active area of the device is a 0.5 mm by 0.5 mm square which consists of strips of graphene contacted by partially overlapping gold and chromium electrodes. (Image: Michael Fuhrer)Such a device is called a “hot electron bolometer” and bilayer graph...
Synho Do, PhD, is an Assistant in Physics at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he is a technical committee member of Webster Center for Advanced Research and Education in Radiation, and Ins...
December 25, 2014
A hot topic in the additive manufacturing field is the impact that 3D Printing Services are having on the design and development of prosthetic limbs. Leading the way in this field are non-profit ventures e-NABLE, a network of 3-D printing volunteers, and Not Impossibl...
BY: BELLE BETH COOPER
We’re pretty keen on optimal timing for social media here at Buffer, and I figured it was high time I collected all the information we have about online communication into one place. I’ve collected research and stats on Twitter, Facebook, email and blogging to hel...
October 6, 2014 The Canadian government and provincial Ministries of Health are about to find themselves facing the democratizing of genetic information, forever altering the relationship between patients and their doctors. The latest genome test kit, 23andMe, is selling in Canada for $199 CDN ...
September 15, 2015
Genfit has boomed in stock market value by 15% since it announced its novel biomarker system for liver disease Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Phase III trials for its drug Elafibranor will incorporate this...
(ED NOTE: Research such as this have occurred because of the increasing power of miniturization and microscopy, and manipulationof molecules, or nanotechnology)
Friday 22 November 2013 12am PSTJenga, a game with wooden blocks stacked upon one another, requires that pla...
December 2, 2014
Three-D printing technology is now being applied to the human heart in order to help surgeons better assess patients before going under the knife.While surgeons routinely use digital images to explore the heart in minute detail before conducting an operation, no two human ...
A new cancer diagnosis technique works by isolating circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from a blood sample (Credit: Shutterstock)
December 15, 2015
A new cancer diagnosis technique that separates cancerous cells from blood may inspire a new form of treatment for the disea...
If you already have the sequenced map of an organism’s genome but want to look for structural oddities in a sample, you can check the genomic barcode – a series of distances between known, targeted sites – by cutting ...
(ED NOTE: Todays researcher is not unlike a well-equipped carpenter; digitalization has led to much better, accurate, cheapter tool to examine both tissue anatomy, and physiology, to better understand the human body, and the tissue of which it is composed. Perhaps a better understanding of hear...
Unicorns, jackalopes, abominable snowmen and Medicaid patients – which of these is easiest to find?
To administrators of state Medicaid programs and managed care service providers, it could be any of these except Medicaid patients.
On any given day, less than...
A study led by researchers from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has for the first time revealed how the loss of a particular tumour suppressing protein leads to the abnormal growth of tumours of the brain and nervous system.
The study is pu...
The day a hospital in Memphis started using the iTClamp, a man who lost control of his chainsaw became the first in the US to use it and be saved by it.
by Elizabeth Armstrong MooreSeptember 11, 2013 1:42 PM PDT
(Credit: Innovative Trauma Care)
There comes a time in ever...
July 28, 2013 — The slightest variation in a sequence of DNA can have profound effects. Modern genomics has shown that just one mutation can be the difference between successfully treating a disease and having it spread rampantly throughout the body.