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Sanofi launches mobile game for kids with type 1 diabetes in the UK
Sanofi Diabetes, a division of Sanofi-Aventis, has launched a new mobile game for iOS and Android phones in the United Kingdom. The game, called Mission T1D, is meant to be educational, to teach children as well as their parents, caregivers, and friends about Type 1 diabetes.
DARPA’s tiny implants will hook directly into your nervous system, treat diseases and depression without medication
DARPA, on the back of the US government’s BRAIN program, has begun the development of tiny electronic implants that interface directly with your nervous system and can directly control and regulate many different diseases and chronic conditions, such as arthritis, PTSD, inflammatory bowel disea
The Case For Intelligent Failure To Invent The Future
Editor’s note: Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures. The world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In the past, experts with spreadsheets and econometric models or social scientists with subscale studies and linear models may have been useful.
Medicine’s Next Big Mission: Understanding Wellness
The bioengineering pioneer Leroy Hood has seen vast changes in medicine over his decades in the biz, in part thanks to his own work on automated DNA sequencing. But he’s not much for looking back — he’s too busy envisioning a future model of medicine.
Now IBM’s Watson Tackles Questions That Have No Answers
When IBM’s advanced artificial intelligence program Watson beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings in 2011, it was an impressive feat for a computer–but still, it was only processing information that humans already knew in order to answer trivia questions.
The Handheld Reusable DNA Sequencer is Here
About the size and shape of a clay brick, the battery-powered prototype called Freedom4 is the result of a six-year collaboration between a computer programmer, a physicist, a chemist, and a team of biologists.
DARPA Project Starts Building Human Memory Prosthetics
Remember This? Lawrence Livermore engineer Vanessa Tolosa holds up a silicon wafer containing micromachined implantable neural devices for use in experimental memory prostheses.
New ‘Biochips’ That Mimic Our Bodies Could Speed Development of Drugs
Imagine if scientists could recreate you—or at least part of you—on a chip. That might help doctors identify drugs that would help you heal faster, bypassing the sometimes painful trial-and-error process and the hefty costs that burden our healthcare system.
The Data Scientist on a Quest to Turn Computers Into Doctors
Some of the world’s most brilliant minds are working as data scientists at places like Google, Facebook, and Twitter—analyzing the enormous troves of online information generated by these tech giants—and for hacker and entrepreneur Jeremy Howard, that’s a bit depressing.
Beijing Doctors Implant World’s First 3D-Printed Vertebra into 12 Year-Old Boy
Doctors from the Peking University Third Hospital (PUTH) in Beijing, China, have become the first in the world to use 3D-printing in complex spinal cord surgery, after replacing a section of cancerous vertebra in a boy’s neck with a piece created on a 3D printer.
Christian Assad, MD Interventional Endovascular Cardiology
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