by Alfred Poor | February 9, 2016 | General News, Medical
Sophisticated sensors based on nanotechnology are poised to revolutionize healthcare by providing accurate, non-invasive methods of detecting disease and other conditions. We’ve covered products that are designed to detect fat-burning and gastric ulcers, and now...
by Bruce Brown | January 21, 2016 | General News, Medical
Perhaps you’ve read that dogs can be trained to detect cancer. Various tumors produce specific alkalines and smelly compounds that dogs — with their ability to discriminate odors as discrete as possibly parts per trillion — can detect the cancer from...
by Alfred Poor | January 4, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
When you see the term “multi-national corporation,” you probably just think “very big company.” But many of these companies are actually doing important work all around the world. For example, consider IBM Research in Haifa, Israel. Part of IBM...
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by Alfred Poor | December 8, 2015 | General News, Health
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of elderly in our population will experience “considerable growth” as Baby Boomers born in the 1940s and 1950s get older. They will also live longer than the generations that came before. The number of people...
by Alfred Poor | November 25, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
The IDTechEx conference was held in Santa Clara, CA November 18 and 19, 2015, covering a wide range of topics including wearable devices and related technology such as sensors, printed electronics, and energy harvesting. This is one of the many items of interest from...
