Life Science

There have been numerous uses of Google Map APIs  to track everything from crime statistics to Relay For Life events to… well bugs. A Cincinnati real estate blog recently reported on an effort by Mt. Saint Joseph University to crowd source Cicada emergence throughout the country. The Map AIP is a collaborative effort by the community to upload Cicada sightings ...

Faster and sharper: A new brain-computer-interface technology could turn our brains into automatic image-identifying machines that operate faster than human consciousness. Researchers at Columbia University are combining the processing power of the human brain with computer vision to develop a novel device that will allow people to search through images ten times faster than they can on their own. Read ...

Sarah is doing a great job blogging the SXSW (whatever that means) conference she’s attending. I admire that; I’ve never been able to write coherently about what I’m listening to. So I’m reporting about 2006 BioAgenda Summit after the fact. I might subtitle the meeting: The Conference of Conundrums. One of the themes running throughout the meeting was the religious ...

Turns out more and more entrepreneurs are looking to provide health information and news to physicians. I wonder how successful these products are, and if it is the nurse and physician’s assistant reading on behalf of the physician. I noticed this portal that HealthDay news service created called Physician’s Briefing – Today’s News. This provides all health news, but cancer ...