Technology

The BBC Must Wake Up To New Media Realities

Ariel between Wisdom and Gaiety. Wikimedia My advice to the BBC: ignore the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee report on your future at your peril. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 28 2015 - 11:11pm

Intranasal Radiology Treatment Breaks The Migraine Cycle

After an interventional radiology intranasal treatment, migraine patients report using less pain-relief medicine for headaches, according to a paper at the Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Scientific Meeting. Clinicians used a treatment ca ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2015 - 10:05am

Synthetic Biology: New Method Makes Protein Engineering More Accessible

Deep in the heart of synthetic biology are the proteins that make it tick and that is why protein engineering is crucial to the new discipline: Scientists grow, harvest, and reprogram proteins to become new drug therapeutics, environmentally friendly fuels ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2015 - 2:00pm

SoftwareX- Scientific Software Gets A Peer Reviewed Canonical Journal

Though the public imagery of science is lab coats and test tubes, less well-known is the role of software development in science. It is often the case that tools don't really exist to do some of the things that need to be done, but after the hard wor ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2015 - 4:40pm

In Cancer Screening, How Much Over-Detection Is Acceptable?

How much overdetection is acceptable in cancer screening? A UK survey discussed in The BMJ this week affirms what we always knew, that responses are all over the map, depending on how the questions are framed. The article is part of a series on over-detect ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2015 - 9:00am

Unregulated Genetic Testing Websites Still Causing Concerns

Though 23andMe finally got FDA approval for a test, that is much different than the unvalidated claims about 250 conditions that they used to make. They got a cease and desist letter from the FDA because of their high profile. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2015 - 10:26pm

Synthetic Drugs: Legal Doesn't Mean Safe

In recent years, hundreds of new synthetic recreational drugs have emerged – drugs that neither the general public nor the scientific community know very much about. Many of these new synthetic drugs – often referred to as “legal highs” – are dangerous an ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 8 2015 - 10:24am

New Method Detects Drug Abuse In Exhaled Breath

Drug testing is most commonly performed using urine samples and its accuracy has made it the gold standard, but collecting samples is inconvenient so a group of researchers from the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden ha ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2015 - 10:41am

Brain To Brain Interfaces May Turn Telepathy Into Reality

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk a mile (or 1.6 kilometers) in somebody else’s shoes? Or have you ever tried to send a telepathic message to a partner in transit to “pick up milk on your way home”? Recent advances in brain-computer int ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 8 2015 - 8:55pm

Blood Test Predicts Cytokine Storm Drug Reaction In Humans

A new test that uses combinations of cells from a single donor’s blood can predict whether a new drug will cause a severe immune reaction in humans. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2015 - 2:17pm