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This bra could save lives MIT Technology Review

WEBBloomer Tech cofounders (from left) Aceil Halaby, SM ’17, Alicia Chong Rodriguez, SM ’18, and Monica Abarca want to simplify collection of data on women’s …

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A new app aims to help the millions of people living with …

WEBA new app could help people with long covid cope with their condition by giving them a clearer understanding of what helps—and hinders—their health.

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The debate over whether aging is a disease rages on

WEBDaniel Belsky, an assistant professor at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, views aging from this perspective: “Aging is a cause of disease, not a …

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AI can help screen for cancer—but there’s a catch

WEBLast month, results from the first clinical trial of AI-supported breast cancer screening came out. The researchers compared two methods for reading a …

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It took a pandemic, but the US finally has (some) …

WEBIn the US, each state decides how it reports findings from covid-19 tests. The result is a chaotic system that’s hurting our response to the pandemic. Across the …

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The quest to legitimize longevity medicine MIT …

WEBLongevity doctors also tend to agree that, while longevity clinics are a pricey experience for the rich, they should eventually be accessible to everyone. “The clinics …

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These AI-powered apps can hear the cause of a cough

WEBThe Australian company ResApp Health has been working on acoustic diagnosis of respiratory diseases since 2014, well before the pandemic. But when covid …

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How gene-edited microbiomes could improve our health

WEBIn a study a few years ago, Sonnenburg and his colleagues delivered a modified microbe into the guts of mice. This microbe glowed under a microscope, so the …

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Building a data-driven health-care ecosystem

WEBThe application of AI to health-care data has promise to align the U.S. health-care system to quality care and positive health outcomes. But AI for health care …

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Data sharing is key to innovation in health care

WEBHealth is a highly precious state of life, which enables individuals to fulfill themselves, unlimited by anything but their will and environment. Maintenance of health …

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Transforming health care at the edge MIT Technology Review

WEB3 million. data points are generated by the average clinical trial. 30%. of all global stored data is from health care and life sciences. 75%. of data will be generated …

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The therapists using AI to make therapy better

WEBZac Imel, who is a psychotherapy researcher at the University of Utah, remembers trying to analyze transcripts from therapy sessions by hand. “It takes forever, …

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How reproductive technology is changing what it means to be a …

WEBAdvances in reproductive technologies are forcing us to reconsider what it means to be a parent —even at the genetic level. IVF allows would-be parents to use …

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Chatbot answers are all made up. This new tool could help you …

WEBThe Trustworthy Language Model draws on multiple techniques to calculate its scores. First, each query submitted to the tool is sent to one or more large language …

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The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101 million award

WEBMoney can’t buy happiness, but X Prize founder Peter Diamandis hopes it might be able to buy better health. Today the X Prize Foundation, which funds global …

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Real health: How XR is transforming health care

WEBExtended reality is revolutionizing the health-care industry by offering endless possibilities to address some of the key challenges to improve access to care and …

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We may never fully know how video games affect our well-being

WEBThe reality, a new study suggests, is that we simply don’t have a good grip on how games affect our well-being, if at all. The research, described in the Royal …

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Medical microrobots are (still) on their way MIT Technology Review

WEBSome such robots have made their way off the lab bench and into large animals, including pigs. There are at least four startups working on medical microrobots …

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An ecosystem to overhaul China’s health care

WEBMarch 30, 2021. Provided by Ping An. Like many countries, China has a health care problem. Changing demographics and lifestyles mean demand for health care is …

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A chatbot helped more people access mental-health services

WEBFebruary 5, 2024. Stephanie Arnett/MITTR | Getty. An AI chatbot helped increase the number of patients referred for mental-health services through England’s National …

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How we transform to a fully decarbonized world

WEBIn 1856, Napoleon III commissioned a baby rattle for his newborn son, to be made from one of the most precious metals known at the time: light, silvery, and …

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Lisa and Mike Ullmann MIT Technology Review

WEBBy. Mark Sullivan. April 23, 2024. Greg Cohen/ProView. Lisa and Mike Ullmann say they developed a “huge appreciation for MIT athletics” when their daughter …

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An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good …

WEBSynthesia changed direction in 2020 and launched its first generation of AI avatars for corporate clients. That pivot paid off. In 2023, Synthesia achieved unicorn …

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A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a

WEBA month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU …

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A Grammy for Miguel Zenón MIT Technology Review

WEBThat’s what Miguel Zenón, an assistant professor of music and theater arts, has won: El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2, which he recorded with the pianist and composer …

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Why new proposals to restrict geoengineering are misguided

WEBThe legislation seems to have been primarily motivated by debunked conspiracy theories about chemtrails. Meanwhile, at the March meeting of the United …

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Spaceflight does some weird things to astronauts’ bodies

WEBThe researchers highlight six biological changes that occur in all astronauts during spaceflight: oxidative stress (an excessive accumulation of free radicals in the …

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A playbook for silver linings MIT Technology Review

WEBA playbook for silver linings. Parul Somani ’04. By. Kathryn M. O’Neill. April 23, 2024. Edward Fox. In high school, Parul Somani ’04 had a clear vision for her career: …

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The Download: how to tell when a chatbot is lying, and RIP my …

WEBHow it works: The Trustworthy Language Model gives any output generated by a large language model a score between 0 and 1, according to its reliability. This lets …

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