Digital Trends explores the near future trends in medicine and how what technology did to postal mail, CD music, newspapers and video is coming for medicine next. Now, instead of just puzzling over complex medical questions with our limited human brainpower, we’ve begun enlisting the help of machines to analyze vast amounts of data, recognize…
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative commits to investing $3 billion to cure diseases
The philanthropic initiative founded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, will spend $3 billion over the next decade in an effort to cure and manage all human diseases. The Chan Zuckerberg’s latest effort will begin with a $600 million investment in a project called Biohub, an independent research center located at…
Microsoft will ‘solve’ cancer within 10 years by ‘reprogramming’ diseased cells
Microsoft has vowed to “solve the problem of cancer” within a decade by using ground-breaking computer science to crack the code of diseased cells so they can be reprogrammed back to a healthy state. In a dramatic change of direction for the technology giant, the company has assembled a “small army” of the world’s best…
Men with early prostate cancer can safely opt out of treatment, finds landmark study
Men diagnosed with early prostate cancer can safely choose active monitoring rather than surgery or radiation without cutting their lives short, according to an eagerly awaited landmark study published on Wednesday. Although research dating back to the 1970s has hinted that many prostate cancers are too slow-growing to threaten a man’s life, the new study…
Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Doctors Find Breast Cancer Risk 30 Times Faster
AI is once again proving its worth in assisting humans in their quest for healthy living. Forbes reports on progress of AI in diagnosing breast cancer, this tome at Houston Methodist Research Institute, a hospital in Texas. researchers from Houston Methodist have developed AI software that can interpret mammogram results a full 30 times quicker…
Stem cells: Researchers use a single molecule to command stem cells to build new bone
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered an easy and efficient way to coax human pluripotent stem cells to regenerate bone tissue—by feeding them adenosine, a naturally occurring molecule in the body. The stem-cell-derived bone tissue helped repair cranial bone defects in mice without developing tumors or causing infection. This is a…
Mushrooms as Medicine: from Helping Treat Cancer to Bees & BioSecurity
People are a part of Earth’s biodiversity. Our species evolved in forests. As part of the ecosystem, we learned to use the planet’s bio dome to our benefit. Now, biodiversity is declining as we use up our natural resources. Singularity University hosted Paul Stamets, a mycologist who researches benefits of mushrooms as they relate to human…
Hospitals start using Watson supercomputer to diagnose cancer
A recent article from Stat reports on the use of the IBM Watson supercomputer in assisting in diagnosis and treatment of cancer. From the article: The goal is to use Watson’s natural language processing to mine the medical literature and a patient’s records to provide treatment advice. And this month the Watson computer system is…