Category: Biomedical Informatics

  • Extreme Reality turns skeletons into biometric signatures

    Extreme Reality turns skeletons into biometric signatures | Cutting Edge – CNET News. Related articles This Is Your Brain On Drugs. (futurelawyer.typepad.com) Biometric home button scanner spotted in latest iOS … – CNET (newestgadgetsinfo.com)

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  • What Death Looks Like: A Fast-Spreading Glowing Blue Wave

    What Death Looks Like: A Fast-Spreading Glowing Blue Wave. Related articles What Death Looks Like: A Fast-Spreading Wave (gizmodo.com.au) Wave of blue fluorescence reveals pathway of death in worms (sciencedaily.com) Death Spreads From Cell To Cell In A Wave: How New Findings Show Old-Age Deaths Happen From Multiple Processes Breaking Down (medicaldaily.com) This glowing blue…

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  • 3D printing is as bad for your lungs as using a stove

    3D printing is as bad for your lungs as using a stove — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles Mediabistro Adds Medical and Engineering Sessions to Inside 3D Printing Asia-Pacific Conference & Expo, October 2013 in Singapore (sys-con.com) Two brothers set the tone for next industrial revolution: 3D printing (siliconrepublic.com) 3D Printed Skateboard: Print to…

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  • Uncanny Portraits Visualize The Power of Genetics

    1: Brothers: Christophe, 30 & Ulric, 29 | Uncanny Portraits Visualize The Power of Genetics | Co.Design: business + innovation + design. Related articles Uncanny Portraits Visualize The Power of Genetics (fastcodesign.com) Genetic portraits (cracktwo.com) These Amazing Portraits Prove That We Look Just Like Our Moms (jezebel.com)

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  • ‘Star Trek’ tricorder becomes the real McCoy

    ‘Star Trek’ tricorder becomes the real McCoy | Cutting Edge – CNET News. Related articles ‘Star Trek’ tricorder becomes the real McCoy (news.cnet.com) Cancer Diagnosed With Tool Similar to ‘Star Trek’ Tricorder (theepochtimes.com)

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  • Prickly Painkiller: Scientific American

    Prickly Painkiller: Scientific American. Related articles You Make Me Happy (scientificamerican.com) What Is Herd Immunity? (scientificamerican.com) Scientific American: is Google+ better for photographers? (nextlevelofnews.com) Just Thinking about Science Triggers Moral Behavior (psychologicalscience.org)

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  • Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world

    Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world | Video on TED.com. Related articles TED: Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world – Bernie Krause (2013) (ted.com) Bernie Krause shares the happiest sounds he’s heard in nature (lovebalancemind.wordpress.com) Bernie Krause shares the happiest sounds he’s heard in nature (ted.com) The sounds of life. (learningfromdogs.com)

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  • New cancer treatment beats chemotherapy without the toxic side effects

    New cancer treatment beats chemotherapy without the toxic side effects. Related articles US Scientists Find That Chemotherapy Boosts Cancer Growth (realfarmacy.com) Eating Raw Garlic Twice A Week Reduces Cancer By 44 Percent – Better Than Chemotherapy (wakingtimes.com) Garlic Oil May Reduce Adverse Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy (medindia.net) Scientists Make Another Obvious Discovery: Chemo Causes…

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  • Qardio unveils portable, wireless cardiovascular monitoring devices

    Qardio unveils portable, wireless cardiovascular monitoring devices. Related articles Qardio Monitors Send Real-Time Stats to Your Doctor (mashable.com) GadgeTell Review: SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive (technologytell.com) Broadcom Eyes Big Role in Wearable Technology (eweek.com) Starbucks expanding pilot wireless charging program to Silicon Valley (electronista.com)

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  • Family planning as fertile ground for startups? Clue is the latest entrant

    Family planning as fertile ground for startups? Clue is the latest entrant — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles This app can help you get pregnant (venturebeat.com) 5 Things Startups Should Know Before Starting (business2community.com) Max Levchin’s Glow nabs $6M to get women pregnant and rethink health insurance (gigaom.com) The next big mhealth opportunity is…

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  • The Future Of Psychotherapy: $5 Million On Breakthrough – Forbes

    The Future Of Therapy: $5 Million On Breakthrough – Forbes. Related articles Psychotherapy via the Internet as good as if not better than face-to-face consultations (medicalxpress.com) Forbes: 14 Things Successful People Do On The Weekends (bagladyboutiqe.wordpress.com)

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  • Why You Can’t Afford To Hold Off On Having Kids

    Why You Can’t Afford To Hold Off On Having Kids – Forbes.

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  • Pesticides found in pregnant U.S. women in UCSF study – SFGate

    Toxics found in pregnant U.S. women in UCSF study – SFGate. Related articles Flame Retardant Exposure Among Pregnant Women Drops in California Following Ban (counselheal.com)

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  • New UC Davis biofabric sucks out sweat and remains completely dry

    New fabric sucks out sweat and remains completely dry. Related articles Biofabrication is a natural evolution of manufacturing for mankind (venitism.blogspot.com) UC Davis stem cell researcher warns consumers to beware of unproven or dangerous stem cell treatments (sacbee.com) Would you eat 3D-printed meat? 7 vegetarians and vegans reflect (ted.com)

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  • This superhydrophobic nanotech coating is truly stunning | Crave – CNET

    This superhydrophobic coating is truly stunning | Crave – CNET. Related articles Cool Superhydrophobic Surface Demos (makezine.com) Ultra-Ever Dry is a superhydrophobic (water) and oleophobic (hydrocarbons) coating that will completely repel almost any liquid. (dietrichvonfreiberg.wordpress.com) NeverWet Technology (dtideas.wordpress.com)

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  • Dhama Innovations climaware temp regulating clothing

    Dhama Innovations. Related articles The best startups from CES 2013: Touchscreen routers, electric skateboards, and lots of therapy (venturebeat.com)

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  • Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com

    Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com. Related articles Silicon Valley’s answer to SXSW: Iggy Pop, Big Data, self-driving cars (bizjournals.com) 10 Silicon Valley businesses hit the Inc. 500 (bizjournals.com) Brazilian government launches Silicon Valley office (zdnet.com) Hey everyone, Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a ‘Silicon Valley’ company (geekwire.com) Leading…

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  • The Health Of Every County In America, Mapped And Ranked | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

    The Health Of Every County In America, Mapped And Ranked | Co.Exist | ideas + impact. Related articles The Health Of Every County In America, Mapped And Ranked (fastcoexist.com) Online Map Guides Great Lakes Climate Change Adaptation Planning (cleantechnica.com)

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  • Forever 21 slashes worker hours and health benefits

    (via Forever 21 Slashes Worker Hours And Health Benefits, Denies Obamacare Is To Blame)

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  • The fall and rise of gene therapy

    Carl Zimmer, wired.com A genetically modified virus laid waste to James Wilson’s career. Now a second one could bring him to redemption. http://flip.it/qyPkg Related articles Carl Zimmer: How did feathers evolve? (ritholtz.com)

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  • Why healthcare needs Apple

    Why health care needs Apple Christina Farr, venturebeat.com Apple has a huge oppor­tu­ni­ty to inno­vate in dig­i­tal health. The Sil­i­con Val­ley tech­nol­o­gy giant has yet to con­firm any new health and fit­ness gad­gets — includ­ing its hotly antic­i­pat­ed “iWatch.” If you were hop­ing yes­ter­day’… http://flip.it/mxJnO Related articles Is Apple Moving Into Digital Health? (inc.com) Samsung…

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  • ZappRx mobile pharmacy

    Tired of long lines at the pharmacy? ZappRx tests ‘mobile boarding pass’ for prescriptions Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Pick­ing up pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tion often requires a good deal of patience. First, there’s the fre­quent­ly long line you have to brace for; then, there’s the chance that the phar­ma­cy never got the script from the doc­tor or…

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  • 3d printing is as bad for your lungs as using a stove

    3D printing is as bad for your lungs as using a stove Signe Brewster, gigaom.com Most con­sumer 3D print­ers are designed to be portable and open, mean­ing the user can plunk one down on their desk and reach right in to the print­ing plat­form. While this encour­ages max­i­mum acces­si­bil­i­ty, it also has a dark side:…

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  • Common pesticides linked to low birthweight

    Common Pesticides Linked to Low Birth Weight and Premature Births inhabitots.com A new study rein­forces news we’ve heard before. First of all pes­ti­cides cause prob­lems for preg­nant women and their babies. Sec­ond­ly, preg­nant women are car­ry­ing pes­ti­cides in abun­dance i … http://flip.it/AlZl4

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