Rewriting Life Wired Petri Dish Gives Real-Time Updates Researcher says “it’s like getting continuous tweets from the cells rather than an occasional postcard.” by Katharine Gammon 2011-10-11T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines NASA Tests a Versatile Habitat for Long-Term Missions The partially inflatable habitat could be adapted for use on the moon or Mars, or for deep space itself. by Katharine Gammon 2011-10-04T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Friending Your Doctor Online A new social-networking service aims to improve the flow of communication by connecting doctors and patients online. by Katharine Gammon 2011-08-31T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Mobile Health Apps That Share A project aims to collect data from apps, potentially enabling new kinds of health research. by Katharine Gammon 2011-06-24T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life An X Prize for Mobile Diagnostics A $10 million prize would go to the first device that can diagnose a range of diseases with the same accuracy as a team of doctors. by Katharine Gammon 2011-05-23T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Making Bacteria into Drug Blimps A new approach can make bacteria deliver medicine where it’s needed. by Katharine Gammon 2011-04-01T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Better Bioimaging with a Liquid Lens New device produces high-resolution 3-D images beneath the skin. by Katharine Gammon 2011-03-01T00:00:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Watson Goes to the Hospital Can IBM’s Jeopardy winner help doctors treat their patients? by Katharine Gammon 2011-02-23T00:00:00-05:00
News Future Gazing with Search Data Search queries aren’t always better than traditional trend-spotting methods. by Katharine Gammon 2010-09-28T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Connecting Electronic Medical Records The power of search engines is applied to health-care data. by Katharine Gammon 2010-08-09T00:00:00-04:00