Technology

Science 2.0: Can Large-Scale Analytics Predict Major Societal Events?

Can big data analytics predict population-level societal events such as civil unrest or disease outbreaks? That is the subject of a two-year analysis of the Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) system. The usefulness of this predic ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2015 - 2:15pm

Noroviruses Could Soon Be Killed With A Hand-Held Cold Plasma Pistol

I am a firm believer that physics is the One Science To Rule Them All and can accomplish almost anything, but I had not predicted that the "fourth state of matter"- non-thermal plasma- could show immunology how it's done and kill off norovi ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 31 2015 - 9:00am

Better Forecasting Of The Flu, Using Big And Traditional Data

Three researchers say they can predict the spread of flu a week into the future with as much accuracy as Google Flu Trends can display levels of infection right now.  The study in Scientific Reports uses social network analysis and combines the power of G ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2015 - 4:46pm

Science 2.0: Public Buy-In- And Penalties For Misuse- Essential For Big Data Success

Public participation will have to be at the heart of big data projects in health care and biomedical research and a new report calls for greater transparency about how people's data are used. The report warns that if people's preferences and valu ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2015 - 8:00pm

Life On A Chip: Transparent Shell A Step Closer To Embryo On A Chip Technology

In the two decades existence of lab-on-a-chip (LOC), there have been lots of individual systems developed, ranging from lung-on-a-chip and heart-on-a-chip to the liver-on-a-chip and kidney-on-a-chip- but an ideal embryo-on-a-chip has eluded science because ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2015 - 9:32am

Do Brain Training Programs Work?

The effectiveness of brain-training games depends on what outcome you're hoping to achieve. Shutterstock By Jared Cooney Horvath, University of Melbourne Over the last decade, an ever-growing number of brain-training programs claiming to enhance lear ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 4 2015 - 10:16am

3-D Bio-Printing Makes Artificial Blood Vessels

Micro-imprinting and electro-spinning techniques have led to the ability to create a vascular graft composed of three layers and this tri-layer composite means the ability utilize separate materials that respectively possess mechanical strength and promote ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2015 - 6:18pm

How Accurately Do Lab-Grown Cells Model Human Disease?

Cell cultures are good for broad biology and medical research, they can help eliminate a lot of broad concerns, but they are not a faithful mimic of real tissue. For the foreseeable future, though the public thinks animal testing is unnecessary, it really ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2015 - 10:31am

Social Robot Has Emotion And Memory

A prototype of a social robot has been developed with an eye toward supporting independent living for the elderly, in partnership with their relatives or carers. It's based on the art service platform called Care-O-bot® 3 and works within a smart-home ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2015 - 9:00am

Alicia App Cuts Medication Errors In Half

An app called Alicia, which has been adapted to iPhone, iPad and Android, is able to help patients over 65 years with multiple pathologies to administer their own medication at home. The Alicia app has been tested on 99 patients from Alicante and was able ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2015 - 8:30am