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Tag Archives: medicine
Another First For 3D Printing – Woman Receives Jaw Implant
An 83-year-old woman suffering from a lower jaw infection became the first person to receive a jaw implant manufactured with [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged 3d printing, bone implant, layerwise, longevity, medicine, regenerative medicine
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SkyLight Adapter Connects Microscopes To Smartphones
The SkyLight is really a simple device derived to solve a simple problem: how to keep your smartphone still enough [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged android, andy miller, App, medicine, microscopy, skylight, smartphone, tess bakke
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Daniel Kraft Gives You a Peek of the Future of Medicine at TEDMED
Modern healthcare is sick, but Dr. Daniel Kraft knows a little something about the cure. At the 2011 TEDMED conference [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged daniel kraft, FutureMed, healthcare, medicine, singularity university, TEDMED
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India Finds Cases Of Tuberculosis Completely Resistant To Drugs
This is scary. A report out of India identifies four new cases of tuberculosis that are completely resistant to drug [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged antibiotics resistance, India, medicine, tuberculosis, WHO
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Latest Victory For Regenerative Medicine: Pituitary Grown From Embryonic Stem Cells
Chalk up another part of the body that can be grown from stem cells – at least in mice. Scientists [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Stem Cells
Tagged brain, dna, genes, medicine, pituitary, regenerative medicine, RIKEN, yoshiki sasai
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Surgeon Uses 3D Printer To Make Models Of Bone – And Saves Hospital Bookoo Bucks
While necessity is the mother of invention, frustratingly high costs can motivate us to ask if there’s another way. Mark [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged 3d printer, 3d printing, mark frame, medicine, orthopedics, reconstructive surgery
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Studies Consistently Fail To Show Benefits Of Dietary Supplements – Experts Think It’s Time To Reevaluate
“Don’t forget to take your vitamins?” That healthful reminder from mom may soon become a thing of the past. While [...]
After 24 Years, Joe Cohen’s Malaria Vaccine Will Probably Be World’s First
Joe Cohen didn’t know much about malaria when he agreed to head the vaccine research program at a company that [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged joe cohen, malaria, medicine, mosquirix, rtss, vaccine
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If MacGyver Was A Biologist – Epetri Dish Monitors Cell Growth In Realtime (video)
A camera-attached laboratory microscope: $2,500. An imaging chip, a smartphone, and some Lego blocks: $400. Scientists at Caltech, out to [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Stem Cells, Video Central
Tagged Caltech, ePetri dish, medicine, smartphone, Stem Cells
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Welcome to Rite Aid, The Virtual Doctors Will See You Now
You got your shopping list: coffee, toothpaste, Tums, and…a doctor’s consultation about your lower back pain? Rite Aid is now [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged chat room, medicine, nowclinic, optumhealth, rite aid, telepresence
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Revolutionary New Brain Chip Allows Monkeys To Grasp AND Feel Objects Using Their Thoughts
Scientists have created a brain implant that not only allows monkeys to control a computer with their thoughts, it also [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged bmbi, bmi, brain chip, computer brain interface, duke, macaque, medicine, miguel nicolelis, paralysis, sensory feedback
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Brain And Coronary Stents: Expensive, Popular, Cutting-Edge – And They Don’t Even Work
Brain stents are the latest in treatments for victims of stroke. Cutting edge medicine, they’ve steadily increased in popularity in [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged boston scientific, brain stent, coronary stent, medicine, stroke
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Sperm Donor Has Fathered 150 Children
Imagine finding out you had a half-sister. You might want to contact her, find out where she lives, what she [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged fertility clinics, in vitro fertilization, longevity, louise brown, medicine
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Another Study Shows A Glass of Wine A Day Keeps The Doc Away
A new study finds that middle-aged women who regularly drink moderate amounts of alcohol are healthier when they’re older, compared [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged alcohol health benefits, coronary disease, medicine, reservatrol, wine
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US Child Mortality Rates Rank 41st in the World
I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s getting better all the time. At least most can sing that tune [...]
Report: Baby’s Sex Can Be Determined With Mother’s Blood At Seven Weeks
Want to find out if your baby is going to be a boy or a girl but aren’t sure about [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged blood, China, diana bianchi, dna, gender tests, Genetics, medicine, pink and blue, tufts university
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Now Robots Drink Wine Too – Scientists Create ‘Robot Sommelier’
Robots get to have all the fun. In this case what I’m calling a robot is the electronic tongue created [...]
Miracle Powder Regrows Fingers, Now Thigh Muscle for Marine
It was only a year ago that ACell’s “miracle powder” was sprinkled on amputated fingers and shown to stimulate the [...]
New European Study Not Worth Its Salt
This past week the media has been in a frenzy about a new study that supposedly shows that a high [...]
Art Follows Function–One Company’s Vision To Break The Mold Of Prosthetics
Bespoke provides amputees an aesthetic alternative to titanium rods and plastic-looking, off-colored shells that typically adorn their legs. Rather than [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged Bespoke, medicine, prosthetic limbs
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Microscopic Drug-Delivering Robot Operates In Eye
Robots have been trying to invade our bodies for years. Now they’ve found a way to get in our eyes [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged longevity, medicine, nanotechnology, robotics, telerobot
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Patients Control Computer Using Only Their Minds (video)
A temporary surgical implant enabled patients to “talk” to a computer. Just by thinking the words aloud in their head [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged body 2.0, brain, brain-computer interface, longevity, medicine
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Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance Causes WHO to Declare: “The World is on the Brink…”
Be afraid. Be very afraid. The widespread misuse of antibiotics is rapidly rendering them powerless against infection. Common infections that [...]
Japanese Researchers Successfully Grow Sperm in Lab – Eventual Cure for Infertility?
In an amazing technical feat researchers in Japan have accomplished something that has stymied the field for the past half [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged cancer, genes, Genetics, medicine, regenerative medicine, Stem Cells
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