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Cell Free RNA Blood Test for Premature Birth

Infant blood test
Building on research in Denmark, Stanford University biologists identified cell free RNA in mothers’ blood that can indicate [MORE]

Capturing Tumor Cells on a Magnetic Wire

 
Magnetized wire captures tumor cells
Stanford University bioengineers have designed a method for capturing circulating tumor cells in the blood stream. Their approach [MORE]

Cell Free RNA Blood Test for Premature Birth

Premature infant with ventilator
Cell free RNAs circulating in a pregnant woman’s blood can indicate time of the baby’s birth or [MORE]

Functional Neurons from T-cells without Induced Pluripotency

Neurons from human immune cells
From Stanford University comes this news: “This new study demonstrates a breakthrough technique that can produce as [MORE]

Skin Cancer Detecting Robot

Demascope to detect melanona
Last year, Stanford researchers reported on an artificial intelligence technology called a “convoluted neural network” to screen images [MORE]

Listening to “Silent Seizures”

Brain Stethoscope
Convulsions are dramatic symptoms of epilepsy, but seizures can also be silent and not obvious. To diagnose such silent [MORE]

Machine Reading Outscores Humans for Comprehension

Neural Network
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba (Hangzhou) recently announced that its AI learning machine scored higher on the Stanford University reading [MORE]

Human Immunity to Cas9 Proteins

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
Stanford researchers have reported troubling news about CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. Their report “demonstrates that there are pre-existing humoral [MORE]

Machine Reading of X-Ray Images

Algorithm Diagnoses Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists
The glucometer is one example of how a disruptive innovation can change medical practice, and [MORE]

An Algorithm for Arrhythmias

Stanford Researchers Develop ECG Algorithm
There is a high hurdle in applying artificial intelligence to clinical diagnostics—i.e. patients have to trust [MORE]

Reprogramming Skin Cells to be Eggs and Sperm

Human Gametes- Ovum & Spermatozoon
A law professor at Stanford University predicts that half of couples in the normal child producing [MORE]

Long Read Sequencing

DNA Sequencing
Carney complex is a rare genetic disease that presents multiple benign tumors in the heart, skin and other tissues [MORE]

Guiding Therapeutic Angiogenesis

Blood Vessel Model
This piece reports that researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Stanford University have used 3-D printing to [MORE]

Woebot, Tele-Psychology

WoeBot
Quoting directly: “Created by a team of Stanford psychologists and AI experts, Woebot uses brief daily chat conversations, mood tracking, [MORE]