May/June 2017 Archives - Page 2 of 2

May 17, 2017

Paper-Based Diagnostics

Author(s)3: Nathaniel Z. Piety, Sergey S. Shevkoplyas

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of children worldwide are born with sickle cell disease, a genetic disorder that impacts the hemoglobin molecules in blood. If left undiagnosed and untreated, most…

May 17, 2017

Cognitive Computing and the Future of Health Care

Author(s)3: Mohamed Nooman Ahmed, Andeep S. Toor, Kelsey O'Neil, Dawson Friedland

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Welcome to the era of cognitive health care, a new partnership between human beings and technology with the goal of transforming health care on a global scale. Cognitive systems that…

May 17, 2017

Opportunities for Data Science in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Author(s)3: Nirmal Keshava

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By the numbers, 2016 was not a good year for the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. As of early December, only 19 new drugs had been approved by the Food and Drug…

May 17, 2017

Minibrain Storm

Author(s)3: Shannon Fischer

Minibrain Storm https://www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/fischer.jpg 618 372 IEEE Pulse IEEE Pulse //www.embs.org/pulse/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/03/ieee-pulse-logo-dsktp2x.png May 17, 2017 June 22, 2022

Floating in a Petri dish, they look like tiny tapioca pearls in peach broth, a couple dozen in number and none much larger than the tip of a ballpoint pen.…

May 17, 2017

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Author(s)3: Leslie Mertz

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Medical researchers increasingly regard tissue engineering and regenerative medicine as potential game changers when it comes to repairing damage from disease or injury and restoring function. To understand the progress…

May 17, 2017

Engineering Tissues to Heal Themselves

Author(s)3: Sarah Campbell

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Sufferers of osteoarthritis are all too aware of the daily pain and impairment of swollen joints, of having to give up sports—and jobs—due to cartilage defects. What they may be…