Technology

No BRCA1 Gene Needed: New Test Predicts The Risk Of Non-Hereditary Breast Cancer

A blood testcould help predict the likelihood of a woman developing breast cancer, even in the absence of a high-risk BRCA1 gene mutation, according to researchers from University College London who identified an epigenetic signature in the blood of women ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 8:58pm

The Real Reason Tesla Opened Its Patents, And Why It Makes Business Sense

Tesla Motors CEO and Tony Stark do-alike Elon Musk recently raised a great deal of consternation by releasing Tesla’s patents for anyone to use “in good faith”.  Amid the hue and cry of befuddled business analysts, multiple theories bubbled up. ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Jun 27 2014 - 7:00am

Science 2.0: Analytics Can Predict Risk Of Metabolic Syndrome

Obviously, as the creators of the four pillars of the Science 2.0 concept, we're interested in new ways to use data to make meaningful decisions, but we recognize that key breakthroughs are more likely to happen in the private sector, where money can ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 8:30pm

Science 2.0 Approach To Monitoring Kidney Transplant Patients

A new data analysis technique in the journal PLoS Computational Biology improves monitoring of kidney patients and could lead to changes in the way we understand our health. The research uses the Science 2.0 approach to make sense out of the huge number o ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 29 2014 - 6:00am

Apple Wars: How The News Media Are Getting It Backwards

YOU’VE SEEN THE REPORTS a thousand times. Samsung is now ahead of Apple in the smartphone wars, the media says. I’m looking at BBC news while writing this, and there we have the same story, freshly posted: “Apple accounted for 18.8 per cent of all sales a ...

Article - Nury Vittachi - Jun 28 2014 - 10:23am

The Start of World War Zzzzzzz

A world food crisis brewing and we face a horrific future unless something can be done. ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Jun 30 2014 - 6:31am

Walking Bio-Bots Powered By Muscle Cells

Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a class of walking "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical pulses, giving researchers unprecedented command over their function.  The new bio ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2014 - 11:40am

Facebook Backlash Will Backfire On The Backlashers

Facebook is under fire again, this time not over privacy, but for finding that a news feed can affect users’ subsequent posts (and presumably, emotions).  Unfortunately, the indignant outrage threatens to harm the public more than Facebook’s original stud ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Jul 1 2014 - 5:54pm

Electric Vehicles Used To Cause, Measure Pollution In Leicester

Today, scientists from the University of Leicester are driving the streets in electric vehicles (EV’s) fitted with specialized air monitoring sensors, with the intention of measuring the extent of air pollution in city environments.  Where do electric vehi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 10:34am

Bold Advances Bring Risk- Even With Rapid Surgical Innovation

Medicine is advancing rapidly and it always has risks, but in early going the risks are going to be greater. A paper found that the risk of patient harm increased two-fold in 2006, the year when teaching hospitals nationwide embraced the pursuit of minima ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 1:30pm