Health and Medical Applications
Medical Records Data Offers Doctors Hope of Better Patient Care
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Healthcare professionals are beginning to tap the treasure trove of information locked in electronic health records to treat people in real time
MAN WITH ALS TWEETS USING BRAIN IMPLANT THAT TRANSLATES THOUGHTS INTO TEXT
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CVS, Walgreens Look for Big Data Reward From Covid-19 Vaccinations
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Chains plan to use information they collect on vaccine recipients to promote stores, tailor marketing
AI system developed to diagnose heart problems
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A new artificial intelligence system can diagnose heart issues with greater precision than people.
Quantum Computing Scientists Call for Ethical Guidelines
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A group of quantum computing experts are raising ethical concerns about the technology’s potential to accelerate human DNA manipulation.
Tapping Into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak
Hype vs. Reality at the MIT Media Lab
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A feature on MIT's Media Lab, including an agricultural project involving food computers.
Majority of Europeans would consider human augmentation, study finds
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A study finds that two-thirds of Europeans surveyed would consider human augmentation. The article breaks down the study to see how location, age, gender impacted responses, and what concerns people had.
Bioterrorists can trick scientists into making dangerous toxins or viruses by infecting lab computers with malware that alters synthetic DNA they produce for experiments
|| Health and Medical Applications Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Cyber security researchers uncovered an online attack that tricks scientists into creating toxic chemicals or deadly viruses in their own labs by replacing ordered sequences with malicious ones.