says Sharon"Users can just follow their curiosity. The applications are truly endless and as SCIO grows
and learns so will our users be able to scan more and more materials. That learning is an important piece of the puzzle.
and have the item in its database. Once it saved, it can always identity that item in the future.
The more people who use SCIO the greater that database will eventually become. This Handheld Scanner Identifies Pills
Determines Calories and More SCIO is currently available for pre-order on the company website with as estimated ship date of July 2015.
while the device software development kit is $449 t
#Why This Collaborative Platform for Musicians Is Drumming Up Big Bucks Steve Martocci goal for Splice is nothing less than to change the course of music creation. e think we can lead an entire new movement in music,
The music platform is compatible with popular digital audio workstations such as Ableton, Logic pro and FL Studio,
and never worry about backup, losing their work or missing files when theye sending things to people,
Add in a community angle that allows aspiring musicians to play with tunes, isolating tracks and creating remixes,
New york-based Martocci sold Groupme to Skype in 2011 for a figure reported between $43 million and $85 million.
He met his Splice cofounder, Santa monica, Calif.-based software architect Matt Aimonetti, at a 2012 entrepreneurship conference.
The site will maintain a free tier, but Martocci says it will migrate slowly toward charging for additional features. ee constantly building a backlog of the amazing things we think we can offer for premium services from the education side, the professional producersside,
of which are held in secure offline cold storage systems. We would like to reassure all Bitstamp customers that their balances held prior to our temporary suspension of services will not be affected
"The site is being transitioned onto a"new safe environment "and is expected to resume service in coming days,
Microsoft Is Now the Largest Company in the World to Accept Bitcoin The trouble at the popular exchange couldn come at a worse time for the ultra-hyped virtual money,
The british leader said he also planned to discuss with Obama how the two countries could work more closely with big Internet companies such as Facebook
and Google to monitor communications between terror suspects. Reporting by Kylie Maclellan; Editing by Dominic Evans s
Wal-mart and Hewlett-packard are increasing their training, to help suppliers manage EHS issues. Theye also using new tools to track performance.
#Google Facebook Others Launch Sustainability Platform Unilever Coca-cola Google Facebook Nike Pepsico and dozens of other major companies and nonprofits have launched a digital sustainability platform
They have since been joined by more than 20 other leading multinational companies including Diageo General mills Johnson & johnson Mcdonalds Microsoft Nestl
Furthermore, New york city will spur private building owners to invest in building efficiency upgrades, with ambitious interim targets and incentives to catalyze voluntary reductions,
In addition to the plan leading to considerable carbon emission reductions in the order of 3. 4 million metric tons a year by 2025, the resulting upgrades should help protect many lower-income citizens from rising utility bills
Nonetheless, a thriving, self-sustaining private sector market for energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy generation will be essential if New york city is to achieve its goals.
#Intel Smart city Tech Furthers City's Green Goals Intel and the city of San jos Calif. are collaborating on a public-private partnership to further the city s Green Vision goals.
The pilot program in San jos is Intel s first smart city implementation in the US. The scalability of Intel architecture enables the intelligence
and flexibility necessary for cities across the country to quickly deploy a range of smart city solutions for everything from air
To address the escalating demands of existing and future residents cities are looking for ways to introduce more technology to become smarter about the use of limited resources The Smart cities USA pilot project will give San jos residents real-time local data that can
San jos known as the Capital of Silicon valley is installing a network of sensors to create a sustainability lens that uses Intel technology to measure characteristics such as particulates in the air noise pollution and traffic flow.
Such measurement data will produce meaningful insights that will lead to improvements in air quality noise transportation efficiency environmental sustainability health and energy efficiency.
Intel says its technology can help cities cost-effectively manage infrastructure growth and resource sustainability that can help them meet the demands of escalating population rates.
The city of San jos has installed a sensor demonstration platform using Intel Gateway Solutions for the Internet of things with an Intel Quark processor and third-party sensors.
Each gateway incorporates Wind River Intelligent Device Platform software with Mcafee security features connected to Intel s Hadoop distribution in the cloud.
IBM and Cisco are the top smart city suppliers positioned to become global leaders in the market according to a July 2013 Navigant Research report.
Cancer cells would have a tough time leaving the original tumor site if it weren t for their ability to enter our bloodstream
and gain access to distant sites Wong says. So it s actually the entry of cancer cells into the bloodstream that allows the cancer to spread very quickly.
##This could really be a game-changer for a lot of applications including diagnostics##say James Collins who is a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Boston University and a core faculty member at Harvard s Wyss Institute.##
Like computer circuits gene circuits usually consist of a sensing component (or##input##)a logic gate and an output but they are crafted from parts of cells rather than wires and transistors.
Using a standard laser printer stocked with special wax-based inks he printed patterns of small dots onto uncoated filter paper.
##But I knew that having that core insight was going to enable the whole thing.#####This was Keith s big insightâ##freeze-drying the circuit##says Collins.##I couldn t believe it worked as well as it did.
Then software on an attached laptop processes the results which takes another 30 seconds. Diets rich in fruit and vegetables have been linked to important health outcomes including reductions in cardiovascular disease type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer.
of mice that can be infected with Ebola and display symptoms similar to those that humans experience.
and if some are susceptible could they harness the power of mouse genetics to figure out what genes make someone susceptible to the disease.
and the NIH Rocky mountain National Laboratory where the research took place were breed able to together eight genetic mouse variants
By analyzing physician social networks the researchers examined how doctors are connected professionally and pass information to each other and how that leads to increasing adoption.
The authors analyzed the social networks of critical care physicians in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
A computer simulation based on the experimental data aimed at optimizing adoption showed a reminder every five to seven days delivered as a strong suggestion
or by email or automated reminders generated by the electronic health record. Interventions also can regularly audit doctors adoption.
##Not only did transplanted these cells survive in the mouse brain they showed functional properties similar to those of native cells##says senior author Andrew S. Yoo assistant professor of developmental biology at the Washington University School of medicine in St louis.##These cells
And we found the human transplanted cells also connected to these distant targets in the mouse brain.
The research involved adult human skin cells rather than more commonly studied mouse cells or even human cells at an earlier stage of development.
When transplanted into the mouse brain the converted cells showed morphological and functional properties similar to native neurons.
Funding came from a National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellowship a fellowship from Cognitive Computation and Systems neuroscience Pathway grants from the National institutes of health and awards from the Mallinckrodt Jr.
and computer engineering and materials science and engineering at Boston University in collaboration with physics professor Bennett Goldberg showed the ability to pinpoint
In collaboration with BD Technologies and Nexgen Arrays a start-up based at the Photonics Center and run by longtime SP-IRIS developers David Freedman
when the concept of programming as we know it from software engineering can be applied to biological computers.
Next they tested the idea in a mouse model of the bone infection osteomyelitis. Antibiotic-resistant small colony variant S. aureus is the cause of chronic and difficult to treat osteomyelitis and also of lung infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF.
They had more blood vessels at the site of injury and their heart function was better.##
and execute medical commands and report the completed activity via a tiny built-in radio antenna.""We think this will enable researchers to develop a new generation of tiny implants designed for a wide array of medical applications"says Amin Arbabian assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford university.
Arbabian's team recently presented a working prototype of this wireless medical implant system at the IEEE Custom Integrated circuits Conference in San jose California.
"Tiny wireless nodes such as these have the potential to become a key tool for addressing neurological disorders"says Florian Solzbacher professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Utah and director of its Center for Engineering Innovation.
Finally the"smart chip"contains a radio antenna to beam back sensor readings or signal the completion of its therapeutic task.
Somewhere there may be a backup system what we call redundancy that might be the basis for better identifying tumors
automatic enrollment of all BPL families with no annual premiums user fees or copayments; and health camps in rural areas by empanelled hospitals
Previous data including that from early clinical trials in humans indicated that the drug odanacatib decreases bone resorption by hobbling CTSK one of the enzymes used to resorb bone.
or stop cancer from spreading from the original tumor site to other parts of the body
The research team at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy used DILISYM a computer program designed to predict how drugs will affect the liver.
The team combined information about troglitazone with data specific to the human liver generated in the lab of senior author Kim Brouwer a professor at the pharmacy school.
The study shows that a computer model could accurately forecast the occurrence of troglitazone-induced liver injury.
but one important reason is that bile acids are different in each species. Recent data suggest that the use of humanized systems has greater predictive power for adverse events like DILI.
The DILISYM software is the result of the DILI-sim Initiative a partnership between the Hamner-UNC Institute for Drug Safety Sciences
and fourteen major drug companies that shared data to develop a tool that can predict a drug s risk of injuring the liver.
Paul Watkins is chairman of the DILI-sim Scientific Advisory board. Kim Brouwer is chair of the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Using the diagnostic panel researchers were able to make diagnoses that consistently distinguished kids with autism spectrum disorder from those with other similar disorders.
#3, 600 crystals in wearable skin monitor health 24/7 A new wearable medical device that uses up to 3600 liquid crystals can quickly let you know
An algorithm translates the temperature data into an accurate health report all in less than 30 seconds.
##Our data show that mechanosensing can occur and plays important roles even when the cellular structural building blocks are fairly basic even
A companion smartphone application can automatically correlate the visual results to specific blood hemoglobin levels.
We believe that the development of this model in the mouse is important for making progress in the field of skeletal repair where an acute clinical need is present for ameliorating skeletal injury chronic osteoarthritis
At the early stages in our understanding the mouse provides us with an exceptional ability to make progress
and then go specifically to the site of a serious injury they could help decrease the number of deaths associated with serious injuries.##
When they receive the right signals from a protein known as thrombin these precursors polymerize at the site of the bleeding.
About one micron in diameter the particles were developed originally to be used on the battlefield by wounded soldiers who might self-administer them using a device about the size of a smartphone.
Researchers used Argonne s Magellan cloud computing system to analyze the data; additional support came from the University of Chicago Research Computing Center.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded the study. Additional funding also came from the National institutes of health the Environmental protection agency and the National Science Foundation.
However they are twice as likely as college students to be daily marijuana users and they have annual prevalence rates of use for several particularly dangerous drugs that are roughly two to three times as high as rates found among college students.
#Heart disease could be written on your face University of Rochester rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Michaud-Rochester on September 2 2014new technology that uses software algorithms
and a web camera can detect subtle changes in facial skin color that indicate the uneven blood flow caused by atrial fibrillation a treatable but potentially dangerous heart condition.##
The technology described in the study employs a software algorithm developed by Xerox Corp. that scans the face
The contactless nature of the technology and the proliferation of web cameras could even eventually allow the screening to occur without interrupting the user.
while someone is reading their email on their tablet computer or smart phone. Other researchers from University of Rochester and from Xerox Corp. contributed to the study
Considering the safety efficacy and user-acceptability tests that we are doing it easily is possible for a company to take this product and run with it.
##In the first phase of the study two percent of urinary catheters were removed after an initial##off-the-shelf##electronic alert was triggered (the stock alert was part of the standard software package for the electronic health record.
In developing countries keeping track of a baby s vaccine schedule on paper is largely ineffective says Anil Jain professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State university.##
From this scanned data a schedule will be created and become a part of the vaccine registry system.
##We will continue to work on refining the fingerprint matching software and finding the best reader to capture fingerprints of young children
and we believe that the data from this study will be immensely helpful in understanding the human gut##Tarr says.##
much work needs to be done before the mouse-based research could help human patients, says Lowenstein,
or NIR-IIA, involves injecting water-soluble carbon nanotubes into a live mouse bloodstream. The researchers then shine a near-infrared laser over the rodent skull.
an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Girish Kulkarni, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering. The device is faster, smaller,
or provide data about air quality. ith our platform technology, we can measure a variety of chemicals at the same time,
within a mouse kidney, for example, or a human tumor biopsy? we have to slice the tissue very thin,
and put all of the images back together with a computer. t a very time-consuming process and it is error prone,
Researchers are focused currently on developing prototypes based on user guidance that can be tested for safety and efficacy in animal models.
she explains. ediatricians don usually want to screen for a condition if they can then refer patients to someone who can help.
and the new molecular testing panel can be run using the sample collected through the initial,
When the panel shows these mutations, a total thyroidectomy is advised. Yip and her colleagues followed 671 patients with suspicious thyroid nodes who received biopsies.
Approximately half the biopsy samples were run through the panel, and the other half were not.
Patients whose tissue samples were tested not with the panel had a 2. 5-fold higher statistically significant likelihood of having an initial lobectomy
and then requiring a second operation. ee currently refining the panel by adding tests for more genetic mutations,
HOW THEY WORK Christman oversaw one of the trial sites as one of the principal investigators at the University of Michigan.
For the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers used data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study,
Stroke severity and improvements in treatment likely also impacted the data though the study could not measure the exact role they played.
Koton says. hese data are also helpful in monitoring the results of how we care for people of all ages,
For the mortality data, researchers examined the 1999 National Health Interview Study linked to the 2006 National Death Index,
they used data derived from the World health organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short-Form, or CIDI-SF,
Deisseroth presented solutions to both of those bottlenecks. hese transform CLARITY, making the overall process much easier and the data collection much faster,
and on top of that you can get the data very rapidly. SEE FINE WIRING STRUCTURES The second advance had to do this rapidity of data collection.
In studying any cells scientists often make use of probes that will go into the cell
and linking the data to the residential addresses of approximately 1000 participants in the Northern California-based Childhood Risk of Autism from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) Study.
The addresses then were overlaid on maps with the locations of agricultural chemical application sites based on the pesticide-use reports to determine residential proximity.
##The researchers found that during the study period approximately one-third of CHARGE Study participants lived in close proximityâ##within 1. 25 to 1. 75 kilometersâ##of commercial pesticide application sites.
Some associations were greater among mothers living closer to application sites and lower as residential proximity to the application sites decreased the researchers found.
Organophosphates applied over the course of pregnancy were associated with an elevated risk of autism spectrum disorder particularly for chlorpyrifos applications in the second trimester.
Based on Schatz belief in combination therapies, the group began shepherding a cocktail of Thymoglobulin and Neulasta through early studies done with mouse models. espite tremendous strides in our understanding of the natural history of Type
then transmit the data wirelessly using radio frequency waves. o one has ever put electronics inside the lens of the eye,
researchers built a prototype that uses radio frequency for wireless power and data transfer. A thin, circular antenna spans the perimeter of the deviceoughly tracing a person irisnd harnesses enough energy from the surrounding field to power a small pressure sensor chip.
or possibly built into a smartphone, Böhringer says. CHANGING EYE PRESSURE The current prototype is larger than it would need to be to fit into an artificial lens,
The researchers, including Brian Otis, associate professor of electrical engineering and also of Google Inc, . and former doctoral students Cagdas Varel and Yi-Chun Shih, have filed patents on the pressure-monitoring device prototype l
QUESTIONS FROM THE IPHONE APP Along with the software improvements that allow the device to adapt to widely varied individual dosage needs,
the new version also relies on improved hardware, including a smartphone (iphone 4s) capable of practical wireless communication with two pumps delivering doses of insulin and glucagon.
Every five minutes the smartphone receives a blood sugar reading from an attached continuous glucose monitor,
which it uses to calculate and administer a dose of either insulin or glucagon. The smartphone includes an application on
which the patient enters information immediately before eating. But instead of the complex calculation patients typically do to estimate their carbohydrate intake,
BETTER CONTROL Both of the studies reported in the New england Journal of Medicine paper compared data reflecting five days on the bionic pancreas system with five days of participantsusual care using their own insulin pumps.
of which will be a true home study only requiring that participants stay within an hour drive of the study site.
But virtually all of the research to date has been theoretical or computer model-based. A handful of papers including several by Kono
although our data suggests that cannabis users might be advised to stop using the drug if they are planning to try
as the mouse has a large amount of its brain devoted to process the sense of smell and needs these new neurons to support learning.
These emerging threads have Kuo hopeful researchers will eventually be able to find the way to ngage certain circuits of the brain to lead to a hardware upgrade.
if you could upgrade the brain hardware to keep up with the new software? He says perhaps there will be a way to combine behavioral therapy
Peter M. Kasson of the molecular physiology and biological physics department then created a computer model of the process.
Data was collected using the same subjects, and the DOT and fmri images were aligned. They looked for Broca area,
The overlap between the brain region identified as Broca area by DOT data and by fmri scans was about 75 percent.
In these studies, the DOT data also showed remarkable similarity to fmriicking out the same cluster of three regions in both hemispheres. ith the improved image quality of the new DOT system,
researchers can get reliable data to a depth of about one centimeter of tissue. That centimeter contains some of the brain most important and interesting areas with many higher brain functions, such as memory, language and self-awareness, represented.
The software, which is currently under development as a tablet application, tracks and records infantsactivity during videotaped autism screening tests.
Results show the program is as effective at spotting behavioral markers of autism as experts giving the test themselves,
and the software performs better than non-expert medical clinicians and students in training. ee not trying to replace the experts,
a graduate student in computer and electrical engineering at Duke university. ee trying to transfer the knowledge of the relatively few autism experts available into classrooms and homes across the country.
GENERAL PRACTITIONERS he great benefit of the video and software is for general practitioners who do not have trained the eye to look for subtle early warning signs of autism
and Treatment. he software has the potential to automatically analyze a child eye gaze, walking patterns,
According to Hashemi and his adviser, Guillermo Sapiro, professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Duke
TABLET APP Later this year, the Duke team plans to test a new tablet application that could do away with the need for a person to administer any tests at all.
The program would watch for physical and facial responses to visual cues played on the screen,
analyze the data and automatically report any potential red flags. Any parent teacher, or clinician would simply need to download the app
which connects researchers from disparate fields to experts in computer programming to help analyze large data sets. ee currently working with autism experts at Duke Medicine to determine what sorts of easy tests could be used on just a computer
or tablet screen to spot any potential concerns, says Sapiro. he goal is to mimic the same sorts of social interactions that the tests with the toys and balls measure,
The researchers then used a mouse model to show that PIP5K1C was responsible for generating at least half of all PIP2 in these neurons.
the new method is a computer program that lets physicians see how much gadolinium, the contrast material injected into a patient vein during an MRI scan,
Leigh says his computer program, working with an MRI scan, can detect subtle changes to the blood-brain barrier that are otherwise impossible to see.
The team tested the wireless charging system in a pig and used it to power a tiny pacemaker in a rabbit.
and efficacy requirements for using this wireless charging system in commercial medical devices. But it has the potential to eliminate bulky batteries
An independent laboratory that tests cell phones says that the system falls well below the danger exposure levels for human safety
MORE EFFECTIVE THAN DRUGS The discovery could spawn a new generation of programmable microimplantsensors to monitor vital functions deep inside the body;
Either way, far-field electromagnetic waves have been ignored as a potential wireless power source for medical devices. Near-field waves can be used safely in wireless power systems.
#App analyzes your voice for mood swings Researchers are testing a smartphone app that monitors your mood by listening for changes in your voice.
HOW IT WORKS The app runs in the background on an ordinary smartphone, and automatically monitors the patientsvoice patterns during any calls made as well as during weekly conversations with a member of the patient care team.
The computer program analyzes many characteristics of the soundsnd silencesf each conversation. Only the patient side of everyday phone calls is recordednd the recordings themselves are encrypted
and kept off-limits to the research team. They can see only the results of computer analysis of the recordings,
which are stored in secure servers that comply with patient privacy laws. Eventually, it will include a feedback loop to the patient
and his or her care team and even a chosen family member. Standardized weekly mood assessments with a trained clinician provide a benchmark for the patient mood,
The detection of mood states will improve over time as the software gets trained based on more conversations and data from more patients.
Over time, they hope to develop software that will learn to detect the changes that precede the transitions to each of these states.
and explore strategies for notifying the app user and care providers about mood changes, so that appropriate intervention can take place.
The app currently runs on Android operating system phones, and complies with laws about recording conversations
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