Technology

A review of a dozen popular websites found that information on colorectal cancer is too difficult for most lay people to read and doesn't address the appropriate risks to and concerns of patients. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2014 - 1:40pm

Regenerated Esophagus Successfully Transplanted Into Rat

A research team led by Paolo Macchiarini, MD, PhD at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has successfully transplanted a regenerated esophagus into a rat using a bioreactor developed by Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology (HART), a spin-off of Harvard Bi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 3:16pm

Herding Cells With Electrcity Could Lead To Smart Bandages

Researchers have used an electrical current to orchestrate the flow of a group of cells, an achievement that could establish the basis for more controlled forms of tissue engineering and for potential applications such as "smart bandages" that us ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 2:09pm

Is Nick Szabo The Creator Of Bitcoin? Linguists Say They Have The Answer

A recent Newsweek article claimed that the mystery of the brains behind Bitcoin had been solved- and Dorian S. Nakamoto was the guy. The primary author of the celebrated cryptocurrency Bitcoin paper has remained unknown. Bitcoin is an Internet-based virtua ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 10:35am

Artificial Intelligence Programs Go Head To Head

Most academics don't like competition but in the field of artificial intelligence, everyone wants to square off against the best in their discipline. In June, the International Planning Competition held every two years will take place in New Hampshir ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2014 - 11:02am

EyeBox CNS- National Space Biomedical Research Institute Funds Eye Tracking Technology

The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), based at Baylor College of Medicine, is a consortium of biomedical institutions that study the health risks related to long-duration spaceflight and developing the technologies and countermeasures n ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 6:30am

ReferralPlus Increases Match Rate For Clinical Trial Volunteers By Over 66%

ReferralPlus is a tool to match patients who disqualify for one study with others they might qualify for, using a geo-therapeutic matching algorithm with other studies, similar to how OpenTable matches people with the restaurants they are interested in by ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 8:00am

Better Donor Transport- Organ Care System FDA Pivotal Trial

At the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 34th Annual Meeting in San Diego, TransMedics announced results of the PROCEED II heart transplant Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pivotal trial results using the Organ Care System ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 9:03am

Speed-Reading Apps Impair Reading Comprehension

Are you on the go a lot? Is your time so limited even moving your eyeballs is putting you behind? If so, there is an app for that. If not, app developers are looking to create a market for that kind of personalized optimization, so they have devised speed ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 9:50am

There Are Two Reasons You Got Unfriended On Facebook

20 years ago, your parents knew there were two things you did not discuss with dinner guests. Your grandparents knew it, your great-grandparents knew it. 2,000 years ago people knew it. In 2014, we are so much smarter we no longer know it. Maybe some surv ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 23 2014 - 8:15am