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Jan 28, 2016

Musician receives brain surgery while playing guitar

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Unbelievable


A patient playing guitar looks odd in a surgery but actually helps doctors detect his brain signals.

A 57-year-old guitar musician received a brain operation in Shenzhen on Jan 25 as he played his guitar through the whole session.

The patient suffered a rare neurological disease called musician’s dystonia.

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Jan 28, 2016

Australian Scientists Will Soon Begin Trials for a Fully Implantable Bionic Eye

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience, transhumanism

Finally. Bionic eye technology that could give sight back to millions of individuals worldwide is set to start trials.

Adding to the recent buzz surrounding the development of bionic eye systems is news of scientists from Australia who are set to begin trials on The Phoenix99 bionic eye—a fully implantable system that marks a significant breakthrough in neural stimulation technology.

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Jan 28, 2016

Noted futurist predicts disease-fighting computers as small as blood cells in 25 years

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, nanotechnology, robotics/AI

Definitely, we’re already seeing the research releases on microbots.


A famed futurist who foresees a day when and human and artificial intelligence merge and nanobots battle disease spoke to CBC’s Duncan McCue about what lies ahead.

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Jan 28, 2016

Archelis–Wearable Chair

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, wearables

Wearable Chair is now A THING that helps surgeons through long hours of surgery. Actually, much more can be done.”

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Jan 27, 2016

Nanoinjector Device

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This is a nanoinjector, a microscopic machine used to inject cells with DNA.

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Jan 27, 2016

3D Printed Stent May Soon Give Hope to Esophageal Cancer Patients

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical

A lot of folks who know me well; knows that I donate my time and expertise to help with the various cancer foundations such as the National Esophageal Cancer Foundation. Esophageal Cancer is one form of cancer not often caught in time due to its symptoms. However, researchers have developed a 3D Stent that is simply amazing and is bringing a lot of hope for so many. Technology and medicine together is an amazing team.

I cannot wait to share this with the foundation’s president; she lost her husband only 2 years ago to this deadly cancer, I lost a cousin, and 2 years ago doctor’s removed a lesion from my esophagus. I cannot express enough to folks (especially younger folks; this is truly a silent killer and it hits all ages (20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s). And, once you ever have a lesion or cancer; you must be diligent in your follow ups no matter what.


fauPretty much everyone I know, myself included, has lost someone to cancer, many of them far too young. Finding a cure for cancer is the lofty, ultimate goal for medical researchers, and people like to fantasize about the day when the headline suddenly appears in the paper: “Cure for Cancer Found!” No more deaths from the disease, no more painful, drawn-out treatments – just a shot or a pill that can eliminate cancer as easily as clearing up an ear infection.

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Jan 27, 2016

IMS Health, Proteus Digital among 8 founding partners for Keck virtual healthcare clinic

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, habitats, health, robotics/AI, wearables

Virtual Healthcare & IMSHealth is a major player in this service offering. Healthcare and clinic in your own home.


The University of Southern California Center for Body Computing has teamed with 8 partners to launch a Virtual Care Clinic. The idea with VCC is to create an integrated approach to the use of mobile apps, “virtual” doctors, artificial intelligence, data collection and analysis, as well as diagnostics and wearable sensors to create truly on-demand healthcare.

The partners involved in this effort are peer-reviewed clinical trial database startup Doctor Evidence, drug data resource IMS Health ($IMS), consumer design firm Karten Design, HIPAA-compliant cloud platform Medable, video creator Planet Grande, sensor-enabled pill startup Proteus Digital Health and vision player VSP Global.

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Jan 27, 2016

David Sengeh: The sore problem of prosthetic limbs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

What drove David Sengeh to create a more comfortable prosthetic limb? He grew up in Sierra Leone, and too many of the people he loves are missing limbs after the brutal civil war there. When he noticed that people who had prosthetics weren’t actually wearing them, he set out to discover why — and to solve the problem with his team from the MIT Media Lab.

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Jan 27, 2016

Breakthrough Diabetes Cell Therapy Could Be A Game Changer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Research is edging us closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes, with encapsulated insulin producing cells that could last for years — ending daily injections

Over 400,000 in the UK alone live with type 1 diabetes, and daily injections are far from a ‘cure’ for the condition. Although these have saved millions worldwide, they’re inaccurate in comparison to the body’s own finely tuned insulin producing cells. This leads to progressive damage and complications.

The wonders of cell therapy

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Jan 27, 2016

A glove fitted with a gyroscope could help Parkinson’s patients stop shaking

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

No more spilled soup or coffee.

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