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Tag: software

  • Patch Finds Heart Problems After Holter Monitor Period

    17 February 2016. A review of records of people wearing a single-use heart monitor patch found serious heart rhythm problems occurring well after the 48-hour period recommended for Holter monitors, the device used most often for ambulatory heart monitoring. Results of the study, conducted by researchers at Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, but sponsored by…

  • Company Hosts Cancer Genome Cloud, Raises $45 Million

    16 February 2016. Seven Bridges Genomics, a computational biology company, unveiled its cloud-based cancer genome data sets, in one of three pilot tests for National Cancer Institute. The Cambridge, Massachusetts enterprise also raised $45 million in its first venture funding round. National Cancer Institute, part of National Institutes of Health, aims to make the Cancer…

  • Virtual Reality Seen Helping People with Depression

    15 February 2016. Individuals suffering from depression often express a high degree of self-criticism to the point it interferes with recovery from their disorder. Researchers from University College London showed in a pilot study that a virtual reality exercise could increase feelings of self-compassion and reduce the severity of depression, in some cases with enough…

  • Harnessing Big Data for Precision Medicine

    13 February 2016. Precision medicine aims to match individualized genomic data with therapies to provide personalized treatments for people with disease. A panel today (13 February) at the American Association for Advancement of Science or AAAS 2016 annual meeting, described how big data — finding insights in large data sets — help make precision medicine…

  • Alliance Creating PTSD Knowledge Base

    11 February 2016. A collaboration of three organizations and companies in the U.S. and Germany is building an authoritative and systematic collection of research on post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. The PTSD KnowledgeMap, as it’s called, is a project of Cohen Veterans Bioscience, Exaptive Inc,. and Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, and will…

  • Chip Designed for Efficient, Mobile Neural Networks

    4 February 2016. An engineering lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed a new processing chip that could allow running of neural networks on mobile devices. A team led by electrical engineering and computer science professor Vivienne Sze described and demonstrated the new chip on 2 February at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in…

  • Ebola Monitoring System Devised with Genome Sequencing

    3 February 2016. An international team of scientists and engineers designed a mobile system using a hand-held genome sequencing device that provided real-time monitoring of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2015. Researchers led by microbiologists Nicholas Loman and Joshua Quick at University of Birmingham in the U.K. published their findings in today’s (3…

  • Workplace Heart Health Platform in Development

    1 February 2016. American Heart Association is developing a technology platform to help people at work track progress toward their wellness goals, and allow companies to evaluate their corporate wellness programs. The platform takes advantage of cloud computing power from the IBM Watson system and connects users through the Web or mobile access. The new…

  • Purdue Licenses Food Pathogen Fingerprint Technology

    26 January 2016. A lab equipment company is licensing a laser-based technology developed at Purdue University that quickly identifies foodborne pathogens. Financial aspects of the agreement between Purdue, in West Lafayette, Indiana and Andreas Hettich GmbH in Tuttlingen, Germany were not disclosed. Hettich is acquiring the rights to Bacteria Rapid Detection using Optical Scattering Technology,…

  • Smartphone App Computes Preterm Birth Risk

    18 January 2016. A smartphone app based on recently published research aims to calculate the risk of women giving birth prematurely. The app, called Quipp, was designed at King’s College London in the U.K., and is available free of charge for Apple iPhones. The Women’s Health Clinical Academic Group at Kings College developed Quipp —…