I bet you had several times your general physician auscultating your body. Using the stethoscope she listen to the variety of sounds generated by your breathing, by the hearth, by the blood circulation and all the others “stuff” we have in our body. Now scientists at NorthWestern University have created …
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Researchers at MIT. coming from different fields of expertise, have created a pill that you can swallow to check for inflammatory condition of your gut. The magic lies in how this pill has been created. First researchers working in the area of synthetic biology have genetically modified e-coli bacteria in …
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Brain Computer Interfaces have got us used to see helmets of sort with plenty of wires coming out of them or, even worse, boxes plugged on the skull through surgery to connect with electrodes implanted in or on the brain. In other words from inconvenient to scaring. Now researchers at …
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I guess most of you remember this cartoon, showing a very concerned patient as the doctor informed him to have fixed his broken rib using Photoshop… The point made, at that time, was the increased use of Photoshop to alter reality, generating “fakes”. It made smile at that time, and …
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This is the “news“: a team of researchers at UCSF Berkeley has managed to “decode” the brain intention to pronounce a sentence into a spoken sentence. The feat involves a patient, Ann, that had a stroke several years ago and lost the use of the voice (along with several other …
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Ever looked at the result of some medical exams and wondered what does that mean? I am not talking about the chicken scratch of some doctors (many, most …) but to the nicely printed result you get from a medical lab. Those long list of unknown words, and even more …
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There are plenty of medicines out there. The problem is that they not always work as expected with a specific patient. This is disappointing but is not surprising. Drugs are tested on thousands of people (after having been cleared for human testing) and will make their way to commercialization if …
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Prosthetics are becoming more and more sophisticated in the range of capabilities offered. They are designed to fill the gap left by an accident or a disease leading to a loss of functionality of a limb or other part of the body. One of the most difficult challenge is how …
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Photo editing of images, and recently of videos, can make the miracle of making yourself look younger (you can even select, with some applications, the desired age). Plenty of politicians are using these “tricks” to appear younger in ads to support their election campaign (feeling that looking younger and handsome …
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The search for bio-compatible materials that can sustain the strain of being implanted in a human heart has been going on for several decades. The problem with the heart is that it beats some 100,000 times a day (there are 86,400 seconds in a day …) and at every beat …
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