The mobile health market is growing, one study says, predicting a value of nearly $50 billion in 5 years.
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Nov 8, 2015
Hackathon Hacking Health, Montreal 2015
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: health, virtual reality
Neurogear 1.0 — Combining VR with EEG neurosensing.
Explore Aertiron’s photos on Flickr. Aertiron has uploaded 2649 photos to Flickr.
Nov 4, 2015
Using Heat-Seeking Bubbles To Destroy Cancer
Posted by Roy in categories: biotech/medical, health
We have plenty of chemicals that can kill cancer cells, but they often hit healthy ones too. The search has therefore been on for a targeted approach, that delivers a fatal payload to tumours without harming surrounding tissue.
Oct 31, 2015
Robots, Bioprinting, and the Future of Food [Video]
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, energy, food, health, robotics/AI, singularity
Emerging technologies are shaking up how we grow food, distribute it, and even what we’re eating. We are seemingly on the cusp of a food revolution and undoubtedly, technologies including artificial intelligence will play a huge role in helping people grow healthier, more resilient food faster and with less energy than ever before.
Rob Nail, Singularity University’s CEO and Associate Founder, provides a few examples of how robotics, automation, and drones are transforming agriculture in this short video:
Oct 31, 2015
EXCLUSIVE: Oncology dietitian reveals the foods YOU can eat to prevent cancer
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, food, health
THIS week we learnt red meat can give you cancer from the World Health Organisation, but is your diet linked to illness?
Oct 31, 2015
Why Focusing On The Obesity Epidemic Distracts Us From The Aging Epidemic
Posted by Robert James Powles in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension
Large amounts of precious resources are being spent on encouraging weight loss and healthy living. While the intention of trying to reinforce healthy living is laudable, the evidence is that our resources are being wasted on minimal benefits.
Society considers obesity a big threat that needs to be overcome, but being thin is seen as a panacea
The diseases caused by biological aging carry on incessantly taking the lives of 100 000 people every day. While age 87 is the most common age of death for people in the western world, little progress has occurred during the past decades.
Oct 30, 2015
Cellphone Microscope, UCLA
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, health, mobile phones
Aydogan Ozcan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute. Follow him around UCLA’s campus as he discusses wireless health and demonstrates detecting malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases with a cell phone!
Oct 29, 2015
Edouard: Please take the time to send this to the World Health Organisation tonight if possible or tomorrow
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension
This is our chance to make a real difference to how ageing research progresses and how people view ageing.
We need fifty people to make a real change in funding policy so we can work towards healthy longevity.
https://www.facebook.com/…/draft-zero-gsap-ageing-and-healt… (please make sure to complete the 6 first lines at least before sending to the email indicated there).
WHO GSAP draft, healthy longevity and biomedical aging research.
Oct 26, 2015
BioViva Presents: Alzheimer’s Disease and Gene Therapy
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension, media & arts, neuroscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9dj1s3N4cE
Adam Alonzi has made another excellent film about the power of gene therapy.
Narrated and produced by Adam Alonzi. Music arranged by Leslee Frost. Sponsored by BioViva Sciences Inc.
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Oct 25, 2015
Fighting Aging With Gene Therapy: An Exclusive Interview With Liz Parrish, The Pioneer Who Wants To Keep You Young
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, health, life extension, neuroscience
Nice interview by The Longevity Reporter about BioViva Sciences Inc.
Liz Parrish isn’t your average CEO. A passionate advocate for change, her.
company BioViva is leading the fight for healthy longevity with pioneering.
gene therapies targeting Alzheimer’s, sarcopenia and even aging itself.
Parrish dreams big, but she’s a woman of action. She’s even demonstrated.
her commitment by testing cutting-edge therapies on herself. Could her.
efforts change how we think about aging? Is gene therapy the future or are.
we moving too fast? We caught up with the woman herself to find out more.
