Consumer Physics has developed three different applications for identifying food, medicines, and plants. During a short demo,
The technique could help scientists develop treatments for patients with some brain diseases as it could allow problematic parts of the brain to be switched off
#Mayo Clinic s Better turns your smartphone into a personal health concierge The Mayo Clinic is offering unlimited access to the famed hospital nurses through a smartphone app for about $50 a month.
The Mayo Clinic partnered with Better, a California-based health technology startup, to launch the new subscription-based app.
The app is covered not by insurance but offers real-time, 24/7 health care assistance. Think of it as a mobile Webmd.
Along with real-time video chats with Mayo Clinic nurses, the new service also includes personally-tailored health information culled from Mayo Clinic databases
said Paul Limburg of Mayo Clinic Global Business Solutions in a press release. eople consistently tell us they want more convenient access to Mayo Clinic knowledge.
and invested in Better to create a powerful way for people to connect with Mayo Clinic in their homes and communities,
Concierge medicine could also be a potential new revenue stream for the Mayo Clinic. Fast Company has covered previously New york-based medical concierge service Sherpaa and Oscar, a new health insurer which tailors its products for web and mobile use.
Because apps and subscription services are largely outside of the scope of FDA regulations, they are a potential moneymaker for health-minded businesses and entrepreneurs,
Better founder Geoffrey Clapp was previously an executive at telemedicine pioneerhealth Hero Network; his new company was launched with $5 million from venture capital fund The Social+Capital Partnership and the Mayo Clinic itself.
The Mayo Clinic Global Business Solutions wing has been actively building partnerships with everything from benefits providers to a variety of software developers.
The Mayo Clinic is entering a crowded market of smartphone-based concierge medicine firms. Beyond Sherpaa, there also Grand Rounds, Stat Doctors, Doctor on Demand,
and even a free app for Canadians, Medeo, which offers subsidized concierge medicine services via smartphones for residents of British columbia.
For Better, the Mayo Clinic, and other concierge medicine providers, the real (and unanswered) question is just how much of a market for their services really exists via smartphone apps s
#3d printed Osteoid cast with built-in ultrasound helps bones heal faster Osteoid cast Old-fashioned casts for broken bones can smell
and cause itching. But 3d printed casts can take care of those issues. Deniz Karasahin has designed the next step:
a custom cast with an ultrasound device to speed up bone healing. Karasahin Osteoid is, obviously, just a design concept,
The therapy has been tricky to administer, because it requires placing ultrasound leads on the skin directly over the bone injury.
That impossible with an old-school plaster castut not with a 3d printed cast of the future.
could provide a new drug target for the treatment of the disease that affects more than five million Americans,
but until now, p25 role in Alzheimer pathology was understood not well. his protein appears to help maintain normal brain activity,
Elevated p25 levels in the brain have been documented upon exposure to neurotoxic stimuli such as oxidative stress and beta amyloids. n this study
whether the blockade of p25 generation could mitigate pathological phenotypes in the Alzheimer brain, Tsai says.
In the mouse model of Alzheimer disease, inhibiting p25 production improved cognitive function, greatly reduced plaque formation and neuroinflammation, hallmark features of Alzheimer disease.
These results hold out the hope that a drug that regulates p25 could benefit Alzheimer disease patients by improving cognitive function
and perhaps delaying the development of brain pathology, Tsai says. This work was supported in part by the National institutes of health and the Howard hughes medical institute M
or treat diseases with unprecedented sophistication, says Daniel Levner, a bioengineer at the Wyss Institute at Harvard university.
and control of the nanobots is equivalent to a computer system. his is the first time that biological therapy has been able to match how a computer processor works,
An obvious benefit of this technology would be cancer treatments, because these must be cell-specific and current treatments are targeted not well.
you don have to be clinically paranoid to find something worrying in the prospect of a highly automated warship that can be controlled by anyone who has the right login information.
When Hall first saw the wireless bulb, she immediately thought of medical technology seeing that devices transplanted beneath the skin could be charged non-intrusively.
Witricity is now working with a medical company to recharge a left-ventricular assist device heart-pump essentially.
or deliver food and medical supplies to disaster areas. As the science advances, it becoming increasingly possible to dispatch robots into war zones alongside or instead of human soldiers.
Some issues are the same ones that plague the adoption of any radically new technology:
#Researchers discover marijuana s anxiety relief effects Researchers at Vanderbilt University have found cannabinoid receptors, through
in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response.
The discovery may help explain why marijuana users say they take the drug mainly to reduce anxiety,
said Sachin Patel, M d.,Ph d.,the paper senior author and professor of Psychiatry and of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics.
he natural endocannabinoid system regulates anxiety and the response to stress by dampening excitatory signals that involve the neurotransmitter glutamate. hronic stress or acute,
severe emotional trauma can cause a reduction in both the production of endocannabinoids and the responsiveness of the receptors.
Without their ufferingeffect, anxiety goes up. hile marijuana xogenouscannabinoids also can reduce anxiety, chronic use of the drug down-regulates the receptors, paradoxically increasing anxiety.
This can trigger vicious cycleof increasing marijuana use that in some cases leads to addiction.
Patel said. ow can we see how that system is affected by stress and chronic (marijuana) use?
and strengthen muscles in aged mice People become less able to bounce back from injuries as they age.
This is a problem that adds risk to many of the common medical procedures the elderly face.
healthy tissue to recover from illness or injury. But because stem cell therapies remain cutting edge,
they have largely been used to target life-threatening problems such as heart failure. Stanford Helen Blau, director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell biology, studies a more banal
but also more ubiquitous, use of stem cells in the body: helping muscles repair themselves. The lab most recent findings suggest that stem cell therapy could be used to help older patients recover from muscular injuries, for example from falls,
or perhaps even weakness following surgery. At a biological level, the stem cells that repair muscle damage lose their ability with age to generate new muscle fibers.
But the older stem cells can be spurred to function like younger cells. Studying stem cells from elderly mice,
a post-doc in Blau lab who is a co-author of the recent study published in Nature Medicine.
The same basic process could lay the groundwork for helping human patients heal after surgery
or an injury. his really opens a whole new avenue to enhance the repair of specific muscles in the elderly, especially after an injury.
Our data pave the way for such a stem cell therapy, Blau said. Other recent work in stem cell therapy has looked similarly for ways the cells could improve functioning of existing organs, rather than building replacements through regenerative medicine.
For instance one recent study suggested that the cells may be able to kick-start insulin-making in pancreas in Type-1 diabetics by replacing Beta cells.
These approaches may lack the heroics of organs grown in the lab, but theye likely to reach the clinic long before replacement organs are available s
#Bitcoin is not only digital currency, it s Napster for finance Bitcoin will start its transformation from a mere currency into an entire open-source.
#High-tech glasses help surgeons see cancer The glasses are designed to make it easy for surgeons to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy cells.
Researchers at the Washington University School of medicine have developed high-tech eyewear that helps surgeons detect cancer cells, which glow blue
The special glasses are designed to make it easy for surgeons to differentiate cancerous cells from healthy cells allowing surgeons to make sure no cancer cells are left during surgery.
Phd, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the university. The technology involve a head-mounted display, custom video technology,
The usual procedure for surgery requires doctors to remove tumors and neighboring tissue which may or may not have cancer cells.
a second surgery is recommended usually to remove additional tissue that is also tested for the presence of cancer.
The special eyewear can potentially eliminate the need for follow-up surgical procedures and save patients from more stress and anxiety
but it has already been used during surgery at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of medicine.
Julie Margenthaler, MD, an associate professor of surgery at Washington University and one of the breast surgeons who has performed surgery with the special eyewear,
if these glasses eliminated the need for follow-up surgery and the associated pain, inconvenience and anxiety.
Dr. Achilefu, who also happens to be co-leader of the Oncologic Imaging Program at Siteman Cancer Center,
is seeking approval from the FDA for a different molecular agent that he is helping to develop for use with the special eyewear.
The title of the patent, hermotherapy Apparatus for the Treatment and Preventions of Cancer in Male and Female Patients and Cosmetic Ablation of Tissueand is focused a heat apparatus for the treatment and prevention of cancer tissues, specifically breast cancers.
and Preventions of Cancer in Male and Female Patients and Cosmetic Ablation of Tissueand is focused a heat apparatus for,
but also the prevention of cancer tissues and, more specifically, breast cancers. Another embodiment of this patent is for the use of the apparatus for the minimal and noninvasive cosmetic applications specifically to destroy
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#Dealing with Drought: Reaping the Benefits of Cover crops (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
and into medical sutures scaffolds and protective burn coverings that dissolve over time Making Shrilk required carefully analyzing the chemistry of insect chitin.
The U s. Food and Drug Administration has approved already Shrilk's ingredients which would make it easier to use for medical purposes.
Medical applications So what are some uses for software that can identify human emotions based on facial expressions?
Facet's applications are incredibly far-reaching from treating children with autism to play-testing video games.
Recognizing other people's emotions based on their facial expressions is a challenge for many people who have an autism spectrum disorder particularly children.
As a research professor at the University of California San diego's Machine Perception Lab Bartlett has been studying the use of facial recognition software to help people with autism for several years. 5 Controversial Mental health Treatments
This game helps children with autism recognize other people's emotions through their facial expressions as well as teaches them how to make facial expressions that express their own feelings.
but with Facet doctors could make more accurate depression diagnoses and also determine whether their patients are responding well to their medication Bartlett said.
with up to 10 hospitals cleared to participate. The company is currently studying the device for treating Hepatitis C with patients on chronic dialysis,
and the Ebola study is based on its protocol l
#Medgadget@CES 2015: ADAMM Intelligent Asthma Management Wearable Walking through expansive, smoke-filled casinos, traversing the miles and miles of exhibitors,
and wading through the crowds too close for comfort, this editor was afraid his asthma might flare up as he made his way around CES in Las vegas last week.
Perhaps if he were wearing a smart sensing patch called ADAMM, asthma would be the least of his worries.
ADAMM (Automated Device for Asthma Monitoring and Management) is an upcoming wearable developed by Rochester, NY based Health care Originals.
Measuring about the diameter of a hockey puck, this smart patch can not only tell when the wearer is experiencing an asthma attack by measuring heart rate,
he explained that pediatrics is a huge opportunity for the company. Children aren always able to perceive
if their asthma is starting to flare up, and even then, they often lack the discipline to use their inhaler.
ADAMM can help ensure that parents can monitor for asthma flare-ups, even when they are away from their kids.
Among other things, MEMS devices are able to measure acceleration, gravity, chemicals, the indicators of disease or the presence of explosives.
Key scientific and technological advances in the CYPHER 2. 0 service include modelling the interaction of the reservoir's natural fracture networks with the fractures induced by the hydraulic fracturing process.
This results in a more accurate fracture network model with which to simulate the production performance of the completion design.
Critical operational factors can then be adjusted in real time between stages during the fracture treatment to further optimize well performance.
and also aid in the stimulation design to help improve their fracture efficiency and effectiveness.
and sensors into a desirable geometry with 5d data reconstruction Enhancing fracture determination from seismic data with improved full azimuth imaging
using full-azimuth fracture orientation and intensity analysis Wojciech Kobusinski, head of Depth Imaging Group at Geofizyka Torun,
such as in the medical industry. A surgeon could potentially ook through his hands to what he is actually operating on, for instance.
The lenses could even be applied to allow drivers to see through blind spots on their vehicles
#Could bacteria from honeybees replace antibiotics? Bacteria are increasingly outsmarting our most overused antibiotics creating a boom of drug-resistant diseases.
This could be the dawn of a post-antibiotic era the World health organization warns when common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill.
Honey is a natural antibacterial which helps explain why it never goes bad and why people have used it as medicine for thousands of years.
Its viscosity acidity and sugar content make it good at sealing wounds and it even contains small amounts of hydrogen peroxide.
But there's also something else at work. Could honey's secret weapon against bacteria be other bacteria?
According to a newly published study those 13 bacteria are experts at stifling other bacterial infections including dangerous superbug strains such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Pseudomonas aeruginosa and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE.
The bee bacteria beat every pathogen they faced a promising result given the global threat posed by superbugs.
but they did work wonders for 10 horses with persistent wounds. The bacteria were mixed with honey
and applied directly to the horses'wounds which had resisted other attempted remedies. The mixture healed all 10.
The researchers say their next step is to investigate wider use of these bacteria against topical infections in more animals including humans n
Is it a headache that there isn just one fast charging standard? You bet. One positive development is the availability of chargers that have wands for both types
resistance to stress and self-healing abilities could allow them to be used on airplane wings.
Since the fresh air radius of the billboard is up to five blocks it could go a long way toward reducing the health risks to inhabitants of large urban areas.
The man-made DNA could be used for everything from the manufacture of new drugs and vaccines to forensics
7 Clever Technologies Inspired By nature DNA alphabet The field of synthetic biology involves tinkering with DNA to create organisms capable of novel functions in medicine, energy and other areas.
"Compare this to a medicinal chemist, who explores a much greater diversity of structures in the small-molecule drugs they synthesize,
and when disorders like autism first take root researchers say. This is another installment in our suite of brain atlases to try to map how all genes are used across the brain
The team used brain tissue with no known abnormalities or viruses such as HIV. Researchers took snapshots of brains at two different stages of prenatal development.
Mice are used widely in biomedical research as a model for humans and these maps could give scientists insight into how mice brains are similar
Allen Institute for Brain science) The map of a healthy developing brain also provides clues to the origin of developmental disorders such as autism the researchers said.
Other studies have revealed certain genes that are active in autism. Lein's team saw these genes were turned on in newly generated excitatory neurons
(which activate other neurons) in the prenatal cortex suggesting autism may start in the womb as opposed to later in life.
and pieced together from scratch paving the way for designer organisms that could produce new medicines food products
and then synthesized the entire thing from scratch said study leader Jef Boeke a synthetic biologist at NYU Langone Medical center who was previously at Johns hopkins university.
Today he said the fungus is used also to makevaccines medicines and biofuels and the ability to create custom-made yeast would provide useful too for the biotech industry.
For example researchers could make synthetic strains of yeast to produce rare medicines such as the malarial drug artemisinin or vaccines like the Hepatitis b vaccine.
which seeks to treat diseases by replacing defective genes with functional ones. Synthesizing plant and animal genomes is a long way off Boeke said
as biologists and doctors are unlikely to be prepared to wait hours for an image to form. o
#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?
From the ground, doctors can see an astronaut's vital signs, as well as how well the spacefarers are sleeping
while spending 45 days in a previously unexplored region of the continent, are beaming their medical information back to civilization while wearing Astroskin graphicastroskin.
"CSA chief medical officer Raffi Kuyumijian said in a new videoreleased by the agency.""People who live in remote communities,
for example, will have an easy access to a doctor,"Kuyumijian added.""They can have these shirts on them all the time.
and alert the doctors following at a distance.""Indeed, the technology is used already for sports monitoring On earth.
#For stem cells in 30 minutes just add acid Embryonic stem cells have huge potential in treating everything from cancer to diabetes because of their ability to morph into almost any other type of cell within the human body.
This stress was enough to make the cells pluripotent in as little as 30 minutes. Not only that they were more malleable than the ips cells developed back in 2006.
I would have thought never external stress could have this effect. The idea came from another biologist at the same facility Haruko Obokata who says it took her five years to persuade her colleagues that this technique would work.
The work ties into Obokata's other research into stress. As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
Thus it is not surprising to observe dramatic cellular plasticity after exposure to significant external stresses such as an injury.
but said It's exciting to think about the new possibilities these findings offer us not only in regenerative medicine but cancer as well.
and that it could lead to personalized reprogrammed cell therapies to treat a variety of conditions.
Aside from its importance in the development of quantum computers, the maser could also lead to advancements in a variety of fields such as communications, sensing and medicine,
The opportunity to improve access to education health care financial systems and employment will take a revolution one that we are tremendously proud to be said part of Branson.
instead there are hard data on how much it will cost to treat the asthma cases that are caused by the extra pollution.
Of course, the disease-eradicating, condom-reinventing Microsoft cofounder didn actually drink human excrement Sedro-Woolley-produced sewage sludge at its finest.
Nature News In a milestone for a politically charged field, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world's first clinical trial of a therapy generated by human embryonic stem cells.
phase I safety study of a stem cellerived therapy for spinal cord injury. The publicly traded company has an extensive patent portfolio relating to embryonic stem cell research,
In the trial, eight to ten paralyzed individuals within 7 to 14 days of their injury will be injected at the point of injury with stem cellerived precursors to oligodendrocytes,
The cells have demonstrated both capabilities in animals. 1 The company said it expects to begin enrolment early this summer at up to seven US medical centres.
Politics and approval In a conference call with analysts and reporters, Geron's president and CEO Thomas Okarma said that the trial"marks the dawn of a new era in medical therapeutics.
Those in hot, arid regions may be losing trees because of drought stress. Even if rainfall is stable,
and his team captured may be symptoms of climatic stress that make the forests more liable to such catastrophes."
"These changes in mortality rates are really an indication of overall system stress, and when trees are stressed,
Nature News The global drive to eliminate the last pockets of polio infection is to receive a boost of more than half-a billion dollars from international donors.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary international and the governments of the UK and Germany this week pledged $630 million over five years for a massive final push to eradicate the crippling disease.
along with the World health organization, UNICEF and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is part of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
The new money will go to vaccination programmes, better disease surveillance and research on new vaccines.
Eradication hope"We are on the brink of eradicating one of the most feared diseases in the world"
He adds that the big injection of new money should galvanize governments and non-governmental organizations to step up funding
it would follow smallpox, which in 1980 became the first disease to be officially wiped out from the planet.
The global polio initiative, a mammoth programme involving the vaccination of billions of children, has reduced the number of polio cases by 99
%since it's launch in 1988, from an estimated 350,000 cases in 125 countries to just 1, 600 last year.
Pockets of the disease exist in four countries: Nigeria, where polio vaccines were denounced by religious leaders,
and false rumours circulated that they carried HIV and caused female infertility; the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar provinces in India, where vaccine effectiveness has been hampered by poor sanitation and high population density;
and in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where conflict has hampered vaccination campaigns. Unless the virus is eliminated in these regions,
a single case of the infectious disease could spawn new outbreaks of the disease, and export it to the many countries that are now officially polio-free,
and so risk undoing the progress already made. The existence of residual pockets of infection is the main reason why the drive to completely erase the disease has failed so far,
with target dates repeatedly being pushed back. Budget gap But in recent years, the global polio programme has faced funding shortfalls,
The large new commitments by non-governmental organizations therefore offers a much-needed cash injection to finish the job.
"Rotarians, government leaders and health professionals have made a phenomenal commitment to get us to a point at
a UK medical research charity that is funding the new grant along with the UK's Department for International Development and Canada's International Development Research Council.
They also want to raise an endowment from international donors that could provide a more stable source of funding for medical research in Kenya.
a UK epidemiologist who has been based in Africa for most of the past 15 years. He warns against excessively high expectations for this first attempt."
"Claustrophobia is a widespread problem in clinical MRI, "says Pruessmann. Removing the coil from the machine provides a less constraining cavity.
The technique was unveiled last May at the International Society for Magnetic resonance in Medicine meeting in Toronto
This provoked Graham Wiggins of the Center for Biomedical Imaging at New york University's Medical center to build his own version.
Forget about it Current treatments for patients who have strong fearful memories, for example people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD
"There are a lot of treatments for anxiety disorders but you see a lot of relapse, "says Kindt. In addition, the drug treatment didn't affect how well the participants remembered the link between the spiders and the shock.
and may soon try out the therapy on stronger fearful memories. To discover whether drug treatment would change this,
and may soon try out the therapy on stronger fearful memories r
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