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Necessary Elements for Lab-Produced Organs

Lab-Produced Trachea
Regenerative medicine scientists at Wake Forest University and North Carolina State University have identified five essentials to overcome [MORE]

Portable BP Monitor

Continuous BP Monitor
Schiller AG (Baar, Switzerland) makes a portable blood pressure monitor for continuous reading over 48 hours, and its [MORE]

Thoughts about Predictive Medicine

In this piece, four distinguished physicians discuss the pros and cons of predictive medicine in the areas of oncology, vascular [MORE]

CRO with Searchable Database of Human Tissue

Lab Myograph
Biopta, Ltd. (Glasgow, UK) is a contract research organization that does drug testing using only fresh human tissue.   [MORE]

240 Genomes Sequenced in 50 hours

Beagle Computer
The day of the $1,000 genome may have already arrived, but that’s only for the cost of sequencing.  Analyzing [MORE]

The Heart of the Hospital

Mount Sinai Data Bank
It’s a fair guess that the “heart” of the hospital of the future won’t be the ER [MORE]

Automating Image Retrieval

In 1986, the US National Library of Medicine introduced its Unified Medical Language System, which was a comprehensive thesaurus [MORE]

UPMC’s Big Data Mine

Late last year, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center launched its $100m data warehouse project which aims to integrate [MORE]

Medicaid for Prisoner Healthcare

The US prison population exceeds two million, and prison healthcare is the most expensive form of care. According to [MORE]

Growing by the Minute—Biomedical Publication

According to this piece, an article is published in a biomedical journal every two minutes, 24/7/365, raising the problem [MORE]

IBM’s “Watson” on Duty at Sloane-Kettering

ROBOT DIAGNOSIS
There is no substitute in medicine for the astute physician, assuming he or she is mentally and physically alert.  [MORE]

Perspective on Big Data Genomics

Tech Data
With improvements in DNA sequencing technology—making that task cheaper and faster—the next obstacle to overcome in [MORE]

IBM’s “Watson” on Duty at Sloane-Kettering

Robots Diagnosing
There is no substitute in medicine for the astute physician, assuming he or she is mentally and physically alert.  [MORE]

Coriell’s “Gene Vault”

The renowned Coriell Institute for Medical Research (opened in 1956; Camden, NJ) has partnered with IBM to create Coriell [MORE]