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and adapted for use to store everything from milk, fruit and certain medicines. In Ghana, for example, a modified design allows the mama mboga oe ladies who run market stalls oe to display her fruit

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Their growing numbers and increasing medical needs will require a different kind of health care professionals to take care of them.

Nano-Medics The medical problems most people have can be traced to a single cell or a small group of them.

as opposed to a bunch of pixels#it can accelerate the whole process of analysis. That in turn will make the parsing of things like medical images and traffic video much faster.

and doctors can even perform surgery remotely. IBM also predicted real-time speech translation now exemplified by products like Samsung s Galaxy speech translation.

Even if you had a doctor document some medical condition, if you didn t come to work,

Researchers at the University of Michigan International Center for Automotive Medicine have created the predictive models by cross-referencing the crash data provided by sensors on cars, like speed and location of impact, with 3-D

It could also notify your dentist, adding an extra layer of social pressure to make an appointment.

This tech,#says Dr. Philip Low, the founder of a medical technology firm called Neurovigil

The $10 million prize will go to the first person that can create a Star trek-like medical tricorder#.

Their growing numbers and increasing medical needs will require a different kind of health care professionals to take care of them.

these days it is common, thanks to advanced medicine, to live a healthy life well into your 90s and beyond.

and medical implants) can be produced for a fraction of their traditional manufacture costs. The true cost of any product is now the amount it takes to download the design schematics.

Some convert sugar into medicines. Others create moisturizers that can be used in cosmetics. And still others make biofuel,

Could they tinker with some genes in the yeast to create a biological machine capable of producing medicine?

head of the three-year project,#oethere would have to be a lot of toxicology tests done first but

or genetically modified animals used in medical research. As the authors note in the study:#

including gene therapy in medicine, the generation of improved agricultural goods, and the engineering of energy-producing microbes,

At a scientific conference, she struck up a friendship with Jennifer Doudna, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UC Berkeley.

Sangamo Biosciences has been working to commercialize the earlier zinc finger nuclease technology as a form of medicine for more than a decade.

#And in Arizona,#oethe Pima County Public library offers on-site expert medical help, making the library the first in the nation to employ a public health nurse on site.

Libraraoke#karaoke at library Nifty Needlers Stone carving Tie-dying Online shopping Couch to 5k running club Yoga Zumba Qigong Acupuncture Pottery

Hyper-Individualized Medicine Professor Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow believes we will soon be using 3d printers to replace traditional pharmaceuticals with hyper-individualized medicines that are printed specifically for the person at the time they ordered them.

Anomaly Zero The medical problems most people have can be traced to changes in a single cell.

Nano-Medics The medical problems most people have can be traced to a single cell or a small group of them.

and other microbes in medical tubing could greatly reduce a patient's risk of infection.

which are valued for the supposed medicinal benefits. The United states also is a destination for illegal ivory according to the study.

Nobody in their right mind would want to do said that John Gearhart the director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who was involved not in the study.

These cells have the capability to develop into any tissue in the body a talent that could make them the stars of regenerative medicine the goal

But South korean biomedical engineer Insung Hwang hopes to find just a cell nucleus and produce a clone from it like Dolly the sheep.

Beyond novelty printed food could provide serious medical benefits. The netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific research (TNO) announced they ll build printers to reassemble pureed food to look like the original think 3d printed broccoli florets from pureed broccoli.

Beyond medical conditions TNO has proposed printing customised meals with varied levels of the basic food components like carbs protein and fat for everyone from seniors to athletes to expectant mothers.

since these natural biodegradable products we are researching can also contribute to traditional medicine and pharmacology as we learn more about our natural environment.

From personalized medicine to fashion wearable technology is making a splash in the tech world. In honor of National Engineers Week (the third week in February) Live Science chatted with two engineers about some of the promises

The Best Fitness Trackers of 2014 Medical devices were one of the first applications of wearable tech.

But Peter Smith, a tropical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, says there is not much evidence from the data that it protects at all.

) The same board voted to establish a translational-medicine centre at the NIH (see page 877 for more.

develop powerful new medicines, and even define strategies that will prevent disease from occurring in the first place.

Obamacare imposes an excise tax on the revenue of medical device companies that is already driving jobs and investment overseas.

Meanwhile, the FDA s slow and opaque approval process is rated less than one-fourth as effective as its European counterpart by medical technology companies.

if paired with sensible policies that facilitate medical innovation more broadly. Recent experiments show how Avian flu may become transmissible among mammals.

Unfortunately, the Obama Administration has taken numerous steps that are stifling medical innovation. He has imposed new taxes on innovative companies.

Pigs with this condition may be reliable models of human atheroscelerosis in biomedical research. The TALEN-modified pig is not the first model of human heart disease (see Model pigs face a messy path),

or Medicine for his work on gene expression and how it is controlled. While working at the Pasteur institute in Paris, he identified regulatory proteins that bind to DNA,

and medical devices fell by 28 %and investment in clean technology declined by 35%relative to the previous quarter.

and provide medical for your child. Once you have met prerequisites then you get to have a child.

Scannon a medical doctor and founder of a biotechnology company first visited Palau in 1993 as a recreational scuba diver.

I quickly discovered that blaming GMO foods for any kind of health problem is controversial in the medical

and Chemical Toxicology found that rats fed on a diet of 33 per cent NK603 corn

The study cited in the article was a 2-year toxicology study of rats fed Monsanto's Roundup-resistant NK103 maize (corn) and the herbicide Roundup.

and animal feed including stacked GM CROPS to undergo long-term animal feeding studies preferably before commercial planting particularly for toxicological and reproductive effects.

and Morphology and the Institute of Biological sciences at University of Brasilia and it was published in the Journal of Hematology

and other blood-making organsã¢Â#Âll of which are signs of severe toxicity. 3. This past year Food Chemical Toxicology published the results of a two-year study conducted by scientists at the University of Caen

Now scientists are working to apply similar 3-DâÂ#Ârinting technology to the field of medicine accelerating an equally dramatic change.

but we're at a tipping point says Dean Kamen founder of DEKA Research & development who holds more than 440 patents many of them for medical devices.

more sophisticated printers advances in regenerative medicine and refined CAD software. To print the liver tissue at Organovo Vivian Gorgen a 25-year-old systems engineer simply had to click run program with a mouse.

While Boland's lab worked out the problem of bioprinting other engineers applied 3-D printers to different medical challenges.

It was like magic says James Yoo a researcher at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine who is developing a portable printer to graft skin directly onto burn victims.

Then led by Anthony Atala at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine researchers began to seed those cells onto artificial scaffolds.

There is no medical equivalent. An MRI doesn't tell you where the cells are says Lipson.

and nanoscientist developing a 3-D printer to manufacture medicine using chemical inks. Instead of printing a test tube out of plastic to do chemistry in let's say we now print our test tube out of tissue

so that people warranting medical assistance in connection with their dire-need for anatomical parts receive the needful

In medical arena 3d printing has always been very helpful Many hospitals institutions and health services always have 3d printed materials as their reference.

and SOLAR ENERGY. 3. Hansen and Kharecha and everyone should watch the presentations at the Symposium on the Medical

Nuclear radiation is used safely countless times every day in numerous ways in medical and diagnostic procedures on humans;

These type of jobs are technical in nature and pay better thereby giving more people a higher level of money and yes medical benefits.

and create jobs with medical benefits! People with good paying skill jobs pay taxes too and the government needs it taxes

As soon as possible a modern hospital was built with up-to-date equipment and every possible facility for scientific investigation and the most skilled surgical and medical treatment.

medical and surgical service was skilled and prompt and the hospital attention was second to none.

while this marvelous transformation was taking place in the Canal Zone poisoning patent-medicine makers and conscienceless food adulterators were spending money by the millions to defeat the purpose of the people to establish a health bureau in Washington to prevent disease

and tested from 1998 to 2005 by UPM scientists led by Prof Dr Mohd Zamri Saad of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

Using this technique X-ray images similar to those used in the medical field are captured providing virtual cross-sections of the specimen without ever cutting into the sample.

behavior through physiological neurological and genetic means. Species of animals that are more vocal in their expression like macaques parrots

The work was funded by the U s. Environmental protection agency U s. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences U s. National Science Foundation Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Australian

what may be an advance in developing GUMBOS-based materials with far-reaching medical electronic and other uses.

In diagnosing cancer nanoparticles with cancer-seeking properties might be injected into a patient before a medical scan.

However many nanoparticles developed so far for medical use for instance must be coated with other materials to provide the desired medicinal property.

In addition to biomedical applications the materials also have potential uses in solar cells and as nanosensors and biomedical imaging reagents Warner pointed out.

Thus far the scientists have made nanogumbos in many shapes and sizes. For example they can be shaped spherical

and significantly advancing the field of personalized medicine. Today's biopsies require the removal of tissue samples through a needle inserted into a solid tumor a procedure that is invasive and sometimes painful.

or any other cancer said Edwin M. Posadas MD medical director of the Urologic Oncology Program at Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and senior author

This improvement will be a great step toward developing personalized medicine he added. The existence of CTCS and their role in cancer metastasis was suspected first more than 140 years ago

and maintain their integrity for sophisticated genomic and behavioral analyses said Hsian-Rong Tseng Phd associate professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at UCLA and the inventor of the Nanovelcro Chip concept and device.

His enthusiasm is echoed by Leland W. K. Chung Phd director of the Urologic Oncology Research Program at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.

Corp. and Fourth Military Medical University in China contributed to the article. Cedars-Sinai researchers were supported by a Young Investigator Award and a Challenge Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation research grants (P01 CA098912 and R01 CA122602) from the National institutes of health a Department of defense Idea

The propagation of antibiotic resistance has been perceived as a medical or microbiology-related problem Alvarez said.

because there's a large potential payoff in terms of reducing costs for pharmaceutical and toxicological testing. Nano3d Biosciences won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2011 to create a four-layered lung tissue from endothelial cells smooth muscle cells

which is important for toxicological testing because primary cells provide the closest possible match to native cells.

Dr. Robert Moore a pediatric pulmonologist at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM; and former BCM scientist Jacob Gage now with Nano3d Biosciences.

#New company applies regenerative medicine to corneal transplantsocular Systems Inc. OSI) Wake Forest Baptist Medical center

whose Institute for Regenerative Medicine is conducting the research and the North carolina Eye Bank is an example of the type of collaboration that is a strategic goal of the Piedmont Triad Research Park (PTRP).

The current surgical technique is to replace a patient's damaged CECS with a very thin layer of tissue containing cells from a cadaveric donor cornea.

The goal of the new partnership is use regenerative medicine technology to meet this increased demand.

and scaffolds can theoretically be applied to almost any tissue in the body said Anthony Atala M d. director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Shay Soker Ph d. professor of regenerative medicine at Wake Forest Baptist is the lead scientist for the project.

Other team members are Tracy Criswell Ph d. instructor of regenerative medicine; Ocular Systems Inc. scientists Jin San Choi Ph d. and Belinda Wagner Ph d.;

and Wake Forest Baptist Department of Ophthalmology physicians Craig Greven M d. chair Matthew Giegengack M d. assistant professor and Keith Walter M d. associate professor.

and Dr. Walter serves on OSI's Medical Advisory board and provides consulting for OSI. Story Source:

#Advantages, potential of computer-guided spinal surgeryin a series of research studies Cedars-Sinai spinal surgeons show that a new method of computer-guided spine surgery is beneficial for spinal reconstruction

They present their findings in six articles published in the current issue of Neurosurgical Focus an online peer-reviewed journal published by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

and the need for follow-up surgeries they write. Computer-guided surgical navigation technology delivers on quality

and safety said J. Patrick Johnson MD a neurosurgery spine specialist and director of Spine Education and the Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship program in the Department of Neurosurgery.

while a patient is in surgery. The images are transferred to a computer which displays them on overhead monitors that allow precise tracking of surgical instruments as surgeons insert screws for reconstruction

and perform minimally-invasive surgery. This approach represents a major leap forward for instrumented spine surgery said Terrence T. Kim MD an orthopedic spine surgeon in the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center and expert in the computer-guided navigation field.

We're looking at the future. Joining Drs. Johnson and Kim as study co-authors are Doniel Drazin MD a senior resident in the Department of Neurosurgery and Robert S. Pashman MD a clinical associate professor and orthopedic spine surgeon at the Cedars

-Sinai Spine Center. The group's studies accounted for six of 10 articles in the March issue of Neurological Focus.

A spokeswoman at the online journal said it is highly unusual for a single institution to publish a majority of articles in a single journal issue.

and computer-aided system used during minimally invasive surgery increased the accuracy of screw placement into vertebral pedicle bones.

and the mobile CT scanner allowed for more accurate surgical placement even within the narrowest parts of the thoracic spine particularly challenging regions in women

A third study determined that the image-guided technique can be useful for other minimally invasive procedures including thoracic endoscopic spine surgery to remove tumors infections

The final two articles offer an overview of computer-guided surgery of the spine including its use in revision

or redo spine surgeries that are often the most complex; and the potential future use of robotic spine surgery with computer navigation.

The special issue of the journal can be accessed at: http://thejns. org/toc/foc/36/3story Source:

Premature birth is now the second leading cause of death among children worldwide and most premature babies are born in low-resource settings where many of the basic technologies

and approaches that lead to improved outcomes are said unavailable Dr. Elizabeth Molyneux a pediatrician at QECH who co-authored the report with colleagues from Rice QECH Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Malawi.

The improvement that we saw for premature babies with respiratory distress syndrome mirrored the improvement that was seen in the United states

Investors are hearing a lot of pitches about medical devices and energy products these days, and then they see this,

is a hi-tech mobile trailer used for cultivating medicinal marijuana. The aptly-named Big Bud is a fully functional weed farm that features programmable lights,

so what we did was just take it to the next level by implementing hydroponic technology and developing it into a full line of trailers for not only the medical marijuana community,

With more and more states allowing the use of medical marijuana, what I'm seeing is broader acceptance of it.

I mean think of the actual patient that's using medicinal marijuana; it's probably a cancer

which includes the company's Bio-PDFO, Sorona, Omega-3, biosurfaces and biomedical products; and biofuels,

or dentists, teaching them how to take care of these needs for their own people. That's really what we're doing.

Futurist Fixes 1. Telemedicine and Robotic Surgery. As originally covered in the FUTURIST: Allison Okamura of the Johns hopkins university Department of Mechanical engineering says the real potential of robotic surgery

or rather computer-enhanced surgery is to reduce the impact of surgeries (make them less invasive,

less costly) and improve patients health. Haptic systems are a particularly promising area of research in the field of robotics.

This sort of research will enable surgeons to better perform minimally invasive surgeries. Surgical robots can also photograph,

survey and collect data in ways that humans cannot and give surgeons a better sense of how the operation went,

after the fact. oewhen you do assisted robot surgery, you re already tracking the tools that are inside the patient,

A Hawaiian heart doctor named Benjamin Berg dictated a complicated surgery over an Internet feed for a Guam man located 3, 500 miles away.

But, as geneticist and open-source medicine evangelist Andrew Hessel wrote in the January-February 2010 issue of THE FUTURIST, oethanks to rapidly moving technologies like synthetic biology,

and medicine might lead to an increase or loss of biodiversity. The framing paper for the conference was oehow will synthetic biology

medical drugs and devices, over-the-counter medicine, clinical therapies, etc. This field has taken on a life of its own due to economic incentives:

and cell therapies, enable regenerative medicine, or make cancer cells self-destruct. The potential seems limitless.

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