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The Reinvented First Aid Kit
Gale
The familiar kits for first aid originated in 1888 when Johnson and Johnson manufactured them for railroad workers. They have [MORE]
Tunable DNA
DNA
DNA can conduct an electrical charge, but as electrons move along a sequence, their pace is faster or slower according [MORE]
“Doc Watson” Building a Practice
IBM Watson Health
Noting that about a third of US health care expenditures (i.e. $1T of $3T) is inadequate, unnecessary, uncoordinated [MORE]
CoaguCheck—Personal Device for Blood Coagulation Monitoring
CoaguChek-INRange
The PT/INR blood clotting test has values ranging from 0.0-2.0 prothrombin time signals a risk for clotting, while 3.5-8 indicates [MORE]
Nano-Biological Computing
Parallel Computing with Nanotechnology
Just as the pundits have concluded that Moore’s Law has run its course, nano-biological computing raises prospects [MORE]
Highly Accurate Blood Test for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Multiple Sclerosis
Blood Test
Screening more than 9,000 proteins with protein microarrays, researchers at the Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine (Glassboro, NJ) have [MORE]
Luciferin Analog Produces Near Infrared Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence
A water soluble, synthesized form of luciferin, known as “AkaLumine-hydrochloride” has been demonstrated to penetrate deeply into mouse lung tumor [MORE]