PlateMate crowd-sources nutritional analysis of users’ meals
Posted by admin in Computers, Medicine on 03. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
While there are a great many people who want to lose weight by dieting, there aren’t too many who can afford to have a nutritionist assess the caloric value of all their food choices. Using the PlateMate system, however, members can get an online community of laypeople to do exactly that – and for considerably [...]
‘Intelligent T-shirt’ could remotely monitor patients vital signs
Posted by admin in Medicine on 22. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
More and more we’re hearing about clothing made from smart fabrics being used in the field of medicine, to monitor patients wearing such garments. The prototype shirt is washable and incorporates electrodes that detect bioelectric power, such as that created by the beating of the heart – an electrocardiogram can be obtained using these [...]
Microbots spin molecules to swim through blood vessels and make repairs
Posted by admin in Hi-tech, Medicine on 13. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
A lopsided self-propelled micromotor could drive itself through blood vessels, making repairs or delivering drugs along the route, according to researchers at Penn State. The small particles leach out a trail of material, like a microspider spinning a thread. The motors turn on, as it were, when one side of a Janus microsphere grows a [...]
Antibiotics may be permanently altering the guts of humanity
Posted by admin in Medicine on 07. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
If you’re one of those people worried that the over-prescription of antibiotics is leading us toward biological calamity, you’re not going to like this. Writing in the journal Nature this week, Martin Blaser of NYU’s Langone Medical Center makes the case that antibiotics aren’t just leading to highly resistant superbugs, but that they are permanently [...]
New antiviral drug could cure nearly any viral infection – including the common cold
Posted by admin in Medicine on 11. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
While not delivering a knockout blow, the discovery of penicillin in 1928 provided a potent weapon in the fight against a wide range of bacterial infections. The quest to develop a similarly broad-spectrum drug to fight viral infections has proven more difficult but now researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory have designed a drug that has [...]
