In case you missed this groundbreaking news last week, MSNBC reported that Dutch researchers are on their way to producing "pork in a petri dish." …
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Using cell phones to save lives
Got an old cell phone you'd like to toss? Stanford medical student Nadim Mahmud would gratefully take it and put it to good use helping …
Wellcome Trust establishes a YouTube channel of historical medical videos
The Wellcome Trust has recently established a collection of historical medical videos on YouTube. According to the Wellcome Library, its Wellcome Film collection contains over …
Science in society journalism awards open for submissions
Read any great articles or books recently about science and its impact on society? Or tuned in to any incredible radio, TV or multimedia on …
Why physicians should pay attention to web reviews
While some doctors have criticized Web sites where patients can rate medical practitioners as unethical and defamatory, Milwaukee psychiatrist Shaili Jain, MD, argues that physicians …
Designing electronic health record technologies for a "small planet"
Following on the heals of federal health officials releasing standards for electronic medical records, The Health Care Blog has published an interesting article discussing principles …
Super Mario Bacteria: image of Mario made with BioBricks
The things people are doing with bacteria these days. A team of nanobiologists have hewn the image of Mario, perhaps the greatest videogame protagonist ever, …
U.S. researchers use bacteria to power simple machines
In October, I wrote that researchers at the University of Rome had coaxed E. coli into pushing the teeth of a tiny crankshaft. Now researchers …
Six reasons to get a Twitter account
Lee Aase, the social media manager at the Mayo Clinic (link to Twitter given the subject of this post), has posted six sensible reasons for …
Living Stories launches with three pages on health-care reform and medicine
In an effort to redefine journalism on the Web, the New York Times and the Washington Post have joined forces with Google to create a …
Mobile phone 'alcohol tracker' released in the UK
According to this BBC story, the United Kingdom's National Health Service has released a mobile phone application to help revelers monitor their holiday eggnog consumption: …
Study shows smart phones speed up diagnosis
Need to review a CT scan from remote? There's an app for that. A study performed at the University of Virginia indicates that CT scans …
New implant technologies designed to treat cancer
According to Scientific American, two teams of researchers are making progress developing alternatives to surgically removing tumors: One team of researchers has been able to …
Will social robots be the caregivers of the future?
Social robots capable of directly engaging with patients and encouraging both their physical and cognitive rehabilitation could be the caregivers of the future, writes Jerome …
Is social media an antidote to medical myths?
If you didn't see this 33 Charts post on why physicians should tweet, blog and use other social media, it's worth a read. In his …
Using E. coli as an engine
First they conscripted E. coli into computations; now scientists have coaxed the bacteria into pushing on the teeth of a tiny crankshaft. The Physics arXiv …