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Revolution in Artificial Limbs Brings Feeling Back to Amputees
Something is missing. Every amputee knows it, and it is more than the arm or leg they have lost. They can get replacements for those limbs: substitutes made from metal and plastic, controlled by advanced computer chips, with the ability to grip, to turn, to step.
Future of prosthetics: Bionic hand lets you feel what you are holding
This bionic hand allows the user to be able to hold objects and feel what the object is, in real-time. It has allowed its wearer to feel things in a ‘natural’ way as it combines man and machine.
Google X cancer pill has 100 researchers and “years to go, not decades”
Andrew Conrad, the Google X researcher heading up the company’s recently-announced ingestible-wearable sensor platform, has shared a good deal more information about the project in an interview with BackChannel. He said he believes the project is only a few years away from viability.
Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Average Japanese High School Senior in English
Artificial intelligence in Japan is getting closer to entering college. An AI software system scored higher on the English section of Japan’s standardized college entrance test than the average Japanese high school senior recently, the development team said.
Early Human Anti-Aging Trials Called ‘Promising’
Scientists from Harvard and the University of New South Wales in Australia say they have discovered how to reverse the ageing process. The research has focused on mice, but early clinical trials have also been conducted on humans.
Jonathan Rothberg’s New Startup Raises $100 Million for Chip-based Ultrasound
A scanner the size of an iPhone that you could hold up to a person’s chest and see a vivid, moving, 3-D image of what’s inside is being developed by entrepreneur Jonathan Rothberg.
Google[x] Reveals Nano Pill To Seek Out Cancerous Cells
Telemedicine Market Set To Explode
Over the next five years, experts expect the global market for telemedicine technology to grow to over $43 billion. “Global Markets for Telemedicine Technolgies,” a BCC Research report, estimates the global market for telemedicine technology will grow to $43 billion by 2019.
Detecting Ebola with a Piece of Paper
James Collins, a synthetic biologist at Boston University, says he’s been able to print the ingredients for simple DNA experiments on paper, freeze dry them, and use them as much as a year later. It could lead to cheap diagnostic tests for viruses like Ebola.
First of its kind blood vessel implant performed at Duke
In a first-of-its-kind operation in the United States, a team of surgeons at Duke University Hospital helped create a bioengineered blood vessel and implanted it into the arm of a kidney dialysis patient. The procedure, part of a U.S. clinical trial to test the safety and effectiveness of the blood
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