Category: medicine & health
A Tufts University professor has a proposal to combat gerrymandering: give more geometry experts a day in court. Continue reading
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It feels good to be the hero, and for the driver that exposed his Tesla (and himself) to danger in order to save another driver, it won’t even be very costly. Continue reading
Five days. That’s how long intracranial pressure and temperature typically need to be monitored in the case of traumatic brain injury. And that’s at least how long flexible, dissolvable sensors created by a research team at the University of Illinois led by professor John Rogers will operate accurately. Continue reading
For the first time, doctors have breached the human brain’s protective layer to deliver cancer-fighting drugs. Continue reading
Compelling evidence shows that fine particulate matters (PMs) from air pollution penetrate lower airways and are associated with adverse health effects even within concentrations below those recommended by the WHO. A paper reported a dose-dependent link between carbon content in alveolar macrophages (assessed only by optical microscopy) and the decline in lung function. Continue reading
ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) can sometimes be put to rather whimsical uses. In 2012 Google announced that one of its computers, after watching thousands of hours of YouTube videos, had trained itself to identify cats. Earlier this year a secretive AI firm called DeepMind, bought by Google in 2014, reported in Nature that it had managed to train a computer to play a series of classic video games, often better than a human could, using nothing more than the games’ on-screen graphics. Continue reading
A technology to keep organs alive outside the body is saving lives. And provoking ethical debates. Continue reading
WHY A BUNCH OF ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, AND LOGISTICS PROS ARE THE PERFECT GROUP TO TACKLE PROBLEMS LIKE MATERNAL HEALTH AND AIRBORNE DISEASE. Continue reading
A way to potentially reprogram cancer cells back to normalcy has been discovered by researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus. The finding, published in Nature Cell Biology, represents “an unexpected new biology that provides the code, the software for turning off cancer,” says the study’s senior investigator, Panos Anastasiadis, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Cancer Biology on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus. Continue reading
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