Excerpts from Technology Review: In one unusual form of biological attack, researchers are engineering viruses to seek and destroy the cells that run amok in cancer patients. After more than 10 years of lab work, researchers in the field of oncolytic therapy have reached a sort of critical mass, deploying their designer viruses in a number of human trials.
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Wow whatever you guys did at the NVHA meeting has really fired up my staff here in Texas. The most innovative idea so far is to start a Society Blog for new staff. The idea is to give 5 first year staff a Blog for the first year and let them express their thoughts and feelings as they work through ...
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Stowe Boyd has got just the thing for us would-be bloggers: a T-shirt. (Wasn’t it inevitable?) He’s testing the market for a shirt for those with True Voices. Would you rather wear a T-shirt that says "will blog for food" that looks like it was scrawled on cardboard by a homeless guy or one penned by a draftsman? I voted ...
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Technology Review recently caught wind of IBM’s expansion of the Mobile Health Tool Kit. The set up uses a patient’s mobile phone to collect data from devices that constantly monitor heart rate, activity, and even how much medication the patient is taking. The phone keeps records of the data and sends off reports to doctors at regular intervals. Researchers at ...
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