Stem cell breakthrough December 4, 2007
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Japanese scientists have succeeded in creating embryonic stem cells without using embryos.
The bio-team from Kyoto University announced their discovery on 20th. Nov, 2007 along with another team from the University of Wisconsin in the U.S. who’d made the same breakthough during separate research.
Medical Simulation and its impact November 30, 2007
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Blood loss is one of the leading causes of death on the battlefield, but war-zone medics often find it difficult to receive the training to prevent those deaths.
Today they can “save” a life-sized arm developed by the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation and Training that simulates “bleeding.”
Researchers there have developed the arm in conjunction with the U.S. Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) and Chi Systems. On Tuesday, they demonstrated how it works during the nation’s largest exhibition of modeling, simulation and related technologies at Orange County Convention Center.
Using Spam Blockers To Target HIV, Too September 29, 2007
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A Microsoft researcher and his team make a surprising new assault on the AIDS epidemic
Cut-rate painkillers! Unclaimed riches in Nigeria!! Most of us quickly identify such e-mail messages as spam. But how would you teach that skill to a machine? David Heckerman needed to know. Early this decade, Heckerman was leading a spam-blocking team at Microsoft Research. To build their tool, team members meticulously mapped out thousands of signals that a message might be junk. An e-mail featuring “Viagra,” for example, was a good bet to be spam–but things got complicated in a hurry.
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Future of Imaging September 24, 2007
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Dr Robin Choudhury and colleagues at the University of Oxford have developed a marker that attaches itself to particular molecules involved in inflammation. As a result, these molecules ‘light up’ on MRI scans.
The ‘VCAM-1’ molecule plays a key role in inflammation, which contributes to many diseases, including multiple sclerosis, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and atherosclerosis (a hardening and narrowing of the arteries which can lead to heart attack and stroke),
This study was published in September 24th Issue of Nature Medicine Journal.
Laser printers and your health August 13, 2007
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Do Laser printers cause harm to your health?
According to the recent study published in the online issue of American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science & Technology Journal,some of the Laser printers could release tiny particles of toner-like material into the air and could pose a long term health hazard to people when these are inhaled.
The report which was based on the research conducted at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane study who studied the printers used in our home and office found that some of these printers released particles from the toner-an ultra thiner powder used instead of ink.
This study investigated particle number and PM2.5 emissions from printers using the TSI SMPS, TSI CPC 3022, and 3025A TSI P-Trak and DustTrak.The monitoring of particle characteristics in a large open-plan office showed that particles generated by printers can significantly (p = 0.01) affect the submicrometer particle number concentration levels in the office.These released particles were comparable to emissions released from cigarette smoking.
This could mean that you could end up with the same lung as a passive smoker does?
Think about it.
new technologies in medicineCould you measure happiness with technology? August 6, 2007
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Technologies usually play an important role in material world,but now they find application in our spiritual world also.
Can we now analyze,measure happiness with technology more so with nanotechnology?
Yes with the reasearch work of Yoshinobu Baba, a professor of chemistry at Nagoya University and a director for nanobiotechnology research at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan.His work is on how Nanobiotechnology could be used as a measure of happiness, stress levels and health.
He says that we can measure the stages of cancer or diabetes, since genomic research tells us which genes are related to which diseases. But we need to analyse proteomics and glycomics in more detail. The next stage is to measure the function of the brain, looking at happiness and stress.
Personal Health Records July 3, 2007
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Personal Health Records is one of the hottest topic for discussion in the internet today.
Many companies including Google and Microsoft are vying for a share in this market.
But,what are personal health records and what is it relevance to people like you?
You could read more about it here
Developing Life saving technologies June 28, 2007
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One of the mission of Mezocore is to develop life saving technologies.These have impact on our everyday life.They help us in enhancing the quality our life.
There are already many such technologies in the world today.But,Mezocore would like to add some more technologies to the already existing life saving technologies.MedicDrive is one such product.
Watch this space for some new developments about MedicDrive or visit here for more information.
Simulation in Medicine July 14, 2006
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Medical Simulation is a part of virtual reality,which can be defined as human interaction in an environment that is simulated by computer.
Why do we need Medical Simulation ?
The World Health Organization estimates that one in every ten hospital patients suffers from medical mistakes leading to serious and even fatal consequences.Every year more than 100,000 people in
North America alone suffer due to medical error related issues.
How do we have better patient outcomes and save more lives?
38% of the medical errors could be prevented by using innovative training applications.
Better patient outcomes July 13, 2006
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Utilising New technology to save more lives
