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Cancer - detection, diagnosis

Cancer - detection, diagnosis

AI in medicine and health care - diagnosis, scanning and testing

AI in medicine and health care - diagnosis, scanning and testing

Biomedical Engineering at FIU, Florida International University

BME Biomedical Engineering at FIU, Florida International University

Biorobotics - Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

Biorobotics - Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

Enzymes to digest Plastics - Packaging, Trash, Recycling and the Environment

Enzymes to digest Plastics - Packaging, Trash, Recycling and the Environment

Huberman Lab Podcast - selected favorite episodes

Huberman Lab Podcast - selected favorite episodes

CRISPR, gene editing and DNA manipulation - agriculture, plants and food production

CRISPR, gene editing and DNA manipulation - agriculture, plants and food production

Synthetic biology, and Cancer research

Synthetic biology, and Cancer research

Protein folding - mapping with AI

Protein folding - mapping with AI

DeepMind AlphaFold - mapping protein folding with AI

DeepMind AlphaFold - mapping protein folding with AI

Prosthetic limbs - biotech, innovation, impact

A collection of articles about Prosthetic limbs - biotech, innovation, impact

Data Sets, Open Access and AI in medicine and health care

Data Sets and AI in medicine and health care

The Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project

Aging, Psychology and HealthCare Innovation

Aging, Psychology and HealthCare Innovation

Personalized medicine - biotech research

Personalized medicine - biotech research

Online Doctors, Virtual healthcare, Telehealth, medicine

Online Doctors, Virtual healthcare, Telehealth, medicine

Bringing back extinct animals, plants - Genetic Engineering, DNA and Science

Bringing back extinct animals, plants - Genetic Engineering, DNA and Science

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Article

Special Report: Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention

It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored | Special report (2023)


Article

Netflix and PBS feature Ranu Jung and her Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory Team - FIU College of Engineering

It is with great Panther Pride that we invite you to watch two recent television broadcasts featuring Ranu Jung, professor and chair of the Departm... (2023)


Article

DoD awards FIU biomedical engineering team $6 million to expand testing of pioneering prosthetic hand system

DOD has awarded $6 million to FIU biomedical engineering professor Ranu Jung and her team to expand testing of their pioneering prosthetic hand sys... (2023)


Article

Britain doubles down on the life-sciences industry

The government vows to clear hurdles so the sector can flourish. Will it be enough? Official efforts to boost the life sciences sector are welcome,... (2023)


Article

Neuroscience: “Pop, Pop, Pop.” She Heard Her Brain in Action - Nautilus

Brain-computer interfaces are opening new possibilities. Brain-computer interface (BCI) have the potential to give people with limited mobility in... (2013)


Article

This company plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year | MIT Technology Review

eGenesis has started transplanting gene-edited pigs’ hearts into infant baboons—and humans may be next. The company, based in Cambridge, Massach... (2023)


Article

Opportunities and challenges in the development of exoskeletons for locomotor assistance | Nature Biomedical Engineering

Exoskeletons can augment the performance of unimpaired users and restore movement in individuals with gait impairments. Knowledge of how users inte... (2023)


Article

The Human Genome Project transformed biology | The Economist

The human genome project at 20. Epic ambition. The genomics revolution has transformed biology. Its work it’s not over yet Yet for genomics to b... (2023)


Article

These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes and superhero skins | MIT Technology Review

Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin. (2023)


Article

This Exoskeleton Uses AI to Help People Walk Faster With Less Energy

There’s a short learning curve, but on average the algorithm was able to effectively tailor itself to new users in just an hour. (2022)


Article

Why Applying Machine Learning to Biology is Hard – But Worth It | a16z Future

Computational genomics pioneer Jimmy Lin explains what many machine learning-focused biotech companies and get wrong about hiring, data, and commun... (2022)


Article

BioTech - Techbio Taxonomy - Not Boring by Packy McCormick

A guest post by Elliot Hershberg on the four forces reshaping biotech startups Why invest in biotech, you ask? You’re not alone. One of the most... (2022)


Article

DeepMind’s protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology | MIT Technology Review

DeepMind has already notched up a streak of wins, showcasing AIs that have learned to play a variety of complex games with superhuman skill, from G... (2022)


Article

DeepMind has predicted the structure of almost every protein known to science | MIT Technology Review

DeepMind says its AlphaFold tool has successfully predicted the structure of nearly all proteins known to science. The AI lab is offering its datab... (2022)


Article

Investing in SCiFi Foods - engineering lab-grown cultivated meat - a16z | Andreessen Horowitz

One of the greatest challenges the world faces today is how to sustainably feed our ever-growing global population without compromising the environ... (2022)


Article

Benchling - the Google Docs for R&D

He Left MIT At 22 To Solve A Problem Investors Didn’t Get. Now His Company Is Worth $6 Billion Sajith Wickramasekara worked as a research assist... (2022)


Article

Platform-Partnership Fit: Business Development for Bio Startups - a16z Future

A new wave of bio platforms is becoming more productive than ever before, thanks to engineering approaches brought to biology. But because such pla... (2021)


Article

A Real-Time Fuel Gauge for Endurance Athletes | Outside Online

Supersapiens’s new continuous glucose monitor promises to help athletes manage their energy levels. But can it really stave off a bonk? (2021)


Article

A new prosthetic hand | The Economist

It is cheaper and better than anything now available | Science & technology (2021)


Article

Human brain organoids grown in cheap 3D-printed bioreactor | New Scientist

It is now possible to grow and culture human brain tissue in a device that costs little more than the price of a cup of coffee Why?: Culturin... (2021)


Article

FDA approves first test of CRISPR to correct genetic defect causing sickle cell disease | Berkeley News

UC scientists and physicians hope to permanently cure patients of sickle cell disease by using CRISPR-Cas9 to replace a defective gene with the nor... (2021)


Article

This Y Combinator startup is taking lab-grown meat upscale with elk, lamb and Wagyu beef cell lines – TechCrunch

Last week a select group of 20 employees and guests gathered at an event space on the San Francisco Bay, and, while looking out at the Bay Bridge, ... (2021)


Article

A possible new cancer treatment? Robots that attack tumors - Los Angeles Times

Chemotherapy and radiation can cause too much collateral damage to treat some brain tumors. Crumb-sized robots could be the solution. (2021)


Article

Scientists Are Working on mRNA Vaccines for HIV, Flu, Cancer and More - POZ

The technology used in COVID-19 vaccines may also be used to prevent other viral infections and to treat cancer and multiple sclerosis. (2021)


Article

First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech - The Academic Times

Consistently ranked as one of the leading causes of death around the world, malaria doesn’t have an effective vaccine yet. But researchers have inv... (2021)


Article

The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines | MIT Technology Review

On December 23, as part of a publicity push to encourage people to get vaccinated against covid-19, the University of Pennsylvania released footage... (2021)


Article

The Second Coming of RNA Medicines - Andreessen Horowitz

The COVID-19 vaccines were a high-stakes fulfillment of the key promise RNA companies had made — that once we know what protein needs to be targete... (2021)


Article

A Brain Implant Restored This Man's Motion and Sense of Touch | WIRED

After his accident, Ian Burkhart didn’t think he’d ever be able to move or feel his hand again. A small chip in his brain changed everything. (2021)


Article

Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing

In the last few days, the question of why more drug companies haven't been enlisted for vaccine production has come up. It's mostly due to this twe... (2021)


Article

Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine. I want t... (2020)


Video

Biohacking our way to health with robot cells | Michael Levin

This biologist built a living robot from frog cells — and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine:This interview is an episode … (2023)


Video

What is Biomedical Engineering & Why is it the BEST Major!! Part I

Hi everyone! Being a recent graduate from TWO Ivy League universities, Harvard & Cornell University, I thought I'd talk about the field that I've s... (2023)


Video

Career in Biomedical Engineering | Biomedical Engineers TV

An introduction to biomedical engineering and choosing as a career.All the Video Footage & Audio credits at the end of the video.Please mail us bef... (2023)


Video

TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins

TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins (2023)


Video

AlphaFold: The making of a scientific breakthrough

The inside story of the DeepMind team of scientists and engineers who created AlphaFold, an AI system that is recognised as a solution to "protein ... (2023)


Video

Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology - TED talk

We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- Drew Berry wants to change that. At TEDxSydney he shows his scientifical... (2023)


Video

DeepMind’s AlphaFold AI: Doing Years Of Research In Minutes!

The paper "Highly accurate protein structure prediction with #Alp... (2023)


Video

What is Bioethics?

Many of our major advancements are thanks to some modifications made technologically, medically, and even with our DNA. However, these new technolo... (2023)


Video

Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works.

Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works. (2023)


Video

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Puts An AI Into Your Brain! - Two Minute Papers

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Puts An AI Into Your Brain! (2022)


Video

Hacking bacteria to fight cancer - TEDed

Explore how synthetic biologists are programming bacteria to fight cancer by manipulating their DNA. --In 1884, an unlucky patient who had a rapidl... (2022)


Video

How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - TEDed

Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can... (2022)


Video

DeepMind AlphaFold: A Gift To Humanity! - Two Minute Papers

DeepMind AlphaFold: A Gift To Humanity! (2022)


Video

Biologist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - CRISPR | WIRED

WIRED 6.29M subscribers CRISPR is a new area of biomedical science that enables gene editing and could be the key to eventually curing disease... (2020)


Video

The Inner Life of the Cell

Harvard University selected XVIVO to develop an animation that would take their cellular biology students on a journey through the microscopic worl... (2019)


Video

Engineering the Genome: Challenges and Opportunities in the Next Wave of Medicine - a16z

Technology’s ability to rewrite our genetic code is becoming one of the most powerful therapeutic arsenals of all time. We’ve gone from small molec... (2019)


Video

Advice for Biotech Founders - A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - YC Startup School

YC Partner Adora Cheung talks to Science Exchange Co-Founder and CEO Elizabeth Iorns about her experience as a biotech startup founder. Learn more.... (2018)


Video

Why It's Almost Impossible to Run a Two-Hour Marathon | WIRED

Three of the world's finest distance runners are about to attempt one of the greatest feats of athleticism in history: a sub two-hour marathon. To ... (2018)


Video

Challenges in Healthcare Innovation | a16z

a16z Published on Dec 15, 2017 The U.S. spent $2.6 trillion on healthcare in 2010; this is expected to double by 2020. Why so expensive? And wh... (2018)


Podcast

Siddhartha Mukherjee on the future of disease and diagnostics

Will artificial intelligence change what it means to be human? Cancer physician, researcher, and author Siddhartha Mukherjee joins the podcast to h... (2023)


Podcast

Can We Program Our Cells? - Michael Elowitz, a professor of biology and bioengineering at Caltech - The Joy of Why

Listen to this episode from The Joy of Why on Spotify. Making living cells blink fluorescently like party lights may sound frivolous. But the demon... (2023)


Podcast

ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus | Episode 37 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)


Podcast

Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction | Episode 39 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. This episode serves as a sort of “Dopamine Masterclass”. I discuss the immensely powerful chem... (2022)


Podcast

Time Perception & Entrainment by Dopamine, Serotonin & Hormones | Episode 46 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss how our brain and body track time and the role that neurochemicals,... (2022)


Podcast

Xenobots: It's not science fiction. Scientists have really made robots that reproduce : NPR

Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Harvard researcher Sam Kriegman about xenobots, the self-replicating robots he helped create. (2021)


Podcast

Bio Eats World: The Theory of a Thousand Brains - Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode, we talk with Jeff Hawkins—an entrepreneur and scientist, known for inventing some of the earliest handheld computers, the Palm and... (2021)


Podcast

The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1) - Andreessen Horowitz

Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about h... (2020)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology

On the podcast we speak with Trevor Bedford, Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about changes in scientific communi... (2020)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice – Andreessen Horowitz

There’s been a lot of talk about technology — and AI, deep learning, and machine learning specifically — finally reaching the healthcare sector. Bu... (2017)


Website

Dani Clode Design - prosthetics design

An augmentation designer exploring the future body (2023)


Website

Examine - Evidence-based Analysis on Supplements & Nutrition

Examine simplifies nutrition and supplementation — through meticulous analysis of the latest scientific research — to help answer your questions on... (2023)


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