Cognitive Assessment is one of those evaluation methods being exercised by healthcare professionals to find out the ultimate measure of a human’s mental health. Savvy Digitization Makes Sense When it comes to infusing technological practice to cognitive assessment domain, healthcare ...
The Future of Solar Power: The Cheapest Energy Resource
The Future of Solar Power: The Cheapest Energy Resource To appreciate what solar power can do for the planet’s future, you first have to understand what the world might look like without solar’s help. Along with wind power, solar produces ...
7 Major Advancements 3D Printing Is Making in the Medical Field
3D printing may seem a little unfathomable to some, especially when you apply biomedical engineering to 3D printing. In general, 3D printing involves taking a digital model or blueprint created via software, which is then printed in successive layers of ...
Foody Garden Towers And The Future Of Urban Gardening
Through their innovative vertical gardening products, Foody Garden Towers aim to provide the world with sustainable food solutions that improve our quality of life, protect the environment and secure our future. The Problem With over half of the world’s 7 ...
Nanoparticle Research Shows Negative Health Effects Associated with NanoTechnology
A recent study published in the December 2014 issue of Environmental Toxicology found that increased exposure to nanoparticles can potentially lead to elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases. As the consumption of nano-based products continues to rise at exponential rates, this ...
Chemicals Present in Breath Could Reveal Lung Malignancy
Bad breath just used to simply mean poor hygiene or a case of the mornings, but as science has shown there could be more to the chemicals in our breath than what we are accustomed to when we wake up ...
Breakthrough In Gene Therapy Could Treat Blindness
Age-related Macular Degeneration (AGM) is one of the leading causes of vision loss. Due to a whole host of faulty genes, AGM was thought to have no viable treatment. That is until now. A report published today in The Lancet ...
From the Front Lines: Biomask Technology in Development to Combat Facial Injuries
An estimated 195,000 deaths are caused by burns every year and are primarily caused by heat or radiation due to contact with chemicals, electricity or friction (WHO). Of these figures, nowhere is burn injury more prevalent than in the modern ...
New Nano-Structure Serves Dual Purpose: Diagnose and Treat Cancer
In the movie, “Inner Space” (1987) actor Dennis Quaid was shrunk to microscopic size and entered the body of actor Martin Short with comical consequences. True to form what began was an exciting science fiction journey within the human body ...
AIDS Vaccine Passed Phase 1 Clinical Trial in Humans
Dr. Chil-Yong Kang who developed theSAV001-H vaccine (Credit: Paul Mayne/Western University) Are we finally going to see a successful vaccination against HIV/AIDS? a recent early clinical trial of a new drug by a company called Sumagen had shown some early ...