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Technology Will Change the Future of Professional Sports!
Technology is rapidly changing professional sports similarly to any other field. Let’s look at how technology can help athletes to reach their maximum potential, while keeping in mind how important it is to preserve the fun and happiness sport brings in people’s lives. Technology hijacked sports Instead of the stairs, you use an elevator to get to your office. You work on your desktop computer or laptop and use a smartphone. You use your credit card to pay for lunch. Technology became gradually part of our life, so it is normal that professional sports also started to exploit its possibilities. In Formula–1, cycling,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine diet GC1 genetics Health nutrigenomics Personalized medicine sensors sport technology wearables Source Type: blogs

HEREDestiny (Science Fiction Short Story)
A story about what our DNA predestines us to be or not to be. What does the code of life mean for us? Symptoms included joint pain, skin rash and fever – the teenage boy read out loud from the dusty book. He found it in the attic while searching in the stuff his parents stored there. He was bored and looked for something to pass the time with. While reading, he kept on turning to his personal communicator to search for the meaning of certain words. His parents told him about symptoms and diseases from the old days, but he never experienced any of these, moreover, he never heard about fever. There was a strange excit...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 29, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Medical Science Fiction AI algorithm artificial intelligence future GC1 Health Innovation sci-fi Source Type: blogs

The Amazing Future of Dentistry and Oral Health
Amazing new technologies such as virtual or augmented reality, 3D-printing or CRISPR will revolutionize dentistry and our whole attitude towards oral health in the future. Let’s look at the top 8 digital technologies. One of the most common childhood nightmares is going to the dentist. Who would not understand it? You have to sit in a huge chair illuminated by all-seeing light. You have to endure that someone looks inside and pokes around in your mouth using edgy and frightening devices. And finally, when the torture is over, that same someone tells you not to eat your favorite sweets and brush your teeth regularly. Grr....
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 24, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing augmented reality CRISPR dentistry digital GC1 genomics Healthcare oral health technology virtual reality Source Type: blogs

Why Don ’ t You Use Technologies to Live Healthier?
The consequences of our unhealthy lifestyles are deadly diseases and the unsustainability of healthcare. It would be wise for everyone to live an active and healthy way of life. Wearables and trackers could help us to get there. So why do you hesitate and why don’t you start using technologies to live healthier today? The consequences of our unhealthy lifestyles are very disappointing It is already common knowledge that an unhealthy lifestyle leads to serious diseases. According to the World Health Organization, the use of tobacco kills around 6 million (!!) people, while the harmful use of alcohol results in 3.3 million...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 23, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers data gc3 Healthcare Innovation wearable wearables Source Type: blogs

How to Choose Wearable Health Sensors?
Let me be crystal clear about wearables. Technology cannot change your lifestyle, only you can do it with good technologies. The right fitness trackers and wearable health sensors can help you achieve your goals by giving you data about your health, so let me show you how to choose the ones that fit your lifestyle and your purposes. Fitness trackers and wearable health sensors alone cannot change your world Researchers in Singapore carried out an interesting study for measuring the effect of healthcare trackers on people’s motivations. They recruited 800 working adults from Singapore and randomly assigned them to various...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 17, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers future gc3 Innovation Medicine 2.0 Personalized medicine social media technology wearable wearables Source Type: blogs

The Greatest Technological Developments for the Elderly in Healthcare
The elderly might often get the impression that technological revolution takes only the young and capable into account. There might be some truth to it but for everyone’s greatest luck, it started to change and I believe it should continue. Let me show you how technological developments for the elderly could help them and change their quality of life for the better. My dear child, would you mind speaking to the operator on my behalf? Spending time with grandparents is a lot of fun. They share a lot of untold stories about the past, embarrassing stories about parents (who still like to parade as serious adults with everyt...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 10, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Empowered Patients Future of Medicine ageing elderly gc2 Health Healthcare medical medical technology Personalized medicine seniors wearables Source Type: blogs

The Driverless Car Is a Great Opportunity for Healthcare
The latest developments in the car industry point towards the realization that within years we will travel by driverless cars everywhere. These automated vehicles also have a huge potential in revolutionizing healthcare. Let me show you how. Will learning how to drive become an obsolete skill? Heading home to his daughter’s fourth birthday celebration, 37-year-old attorney, Joshua Neally suffered a pulmonary embolism in his moving car on a highway in July. For his greatest luck, the car was a new Tesla Model X with an autopilot function. It enabled the car to drive to the nearest hospital, while he suffered in the drive...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 8, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: imported autopilot car industry cars driverless car future Healthcare Innovation portable diagnostics technology tesla vehicles wearables Source Type: blogs

Nanotechnology in Healthcare: Getting Smaller and Smarter
We are living at the dawn of the nanomedicine age. I believe that nanoparticles and nanodevices will soon operate as precise drug delivery systems, cancer treatment tools or tiny surgeons. Let me introduce you the brave, new world of nanotechnology in healthcare. Nanorobots having nanobreakfast with your red and white blood cells When I was a kid, one of my favorite TV series was a French animation, Il était un fois… la vie (1986). I found it fascinating how the creators imagined the human body as a construction where tiny cars floated through the human veins, grab-cranes worked on teeth and bacteria as tiny monsters tr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 3, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Nanotechnology in Medicine cancer treatment drug delivery system future GC1 Healthcare Innovation nanodevices nanoparticles robotics wearables Source Type: blogs

The Future of Food – The Food of the Future
Innovation and technology might lead us to more conscious food consumption. We might get to know better, what we eat, what and how we should eat, or how to stretch the boundaries of the food industry. Let’s take a closer look at the future of food. I do not have to stress how important part food and eating play in our lives. Food is at the bottom in Maslow’s hierarchy of our needs, it is essential for our survival. It shows perfectly the creativity of humankind: food exists in the richest variety of ingredients, forms, shapes, tastes and colors all over the universe from the Greenlandic kiviak (dozens of small bird...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 2, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Food 3d printing food sensors GC1 genomics Innovation nutrigenomics technology Source Type: blogs

Artificial Decisions (Science-Fiction Short Story)
She stared at the holographic screen of her personal communicator. Her future husband was chosen for her. Not by her parents like in some religious countries in the old days. But by Omega, the artificial intelligence algorithm directing the world. It takes every tiny detail into consideration and makes an advantageous decision for everyone. It is the most advanced system ever developed, even more so than our brains. Moreover, it has already started developing itself further. It obtains data from everywhere and about everyone. We used to call it the Internet of things, now it’s called life. It supervises financial transa...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 31, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Medical Science Fiction AI artificial intelligence future GC1 Innovation literature scifi technology Source Type: blogs

Artificial Decisions (Science Fiction Short Story)
She stared at the holographic screen of her personal communicator. Her future husband was chosen for her. Not by her parents like in some religious countries in the old days. But by Omega, the artificial intelligence algorithm directing the world. It takes every tiny detail into consideration and makes an advantageous decision for everyone. It is the most advanced system ever developed, even more so than our brains. Moreover, it has already started developing itself further. It obtains data from everywhere and about everyone. We used to call it the Internet of things, now it’s called life. It supervises financial transa...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 31, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Medical Science Fiction AI artificial intelligence future GC1 Innovation literature scifi technology Source Type: blogs

Why Aren ’ t Google And Apple Saving Healthcare?
Tech companies could change healthcare with their knowledge about disruption and could lead the way to medical innovation. Why isn’t that happening already?  It is a fact that healthcare is unsustainable. American health spending will reach nearly $5 trillion, or 20 percent of gross domestic product by 2021. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there is a worldwide shortage of around 4.3 million physicians, nurses, and allied health workers. So how could we change it? The most likely solution is technology. The introduction of artificial intelligence, robotics, social media, various sensors and wearables i...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 6, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine gc4 Source Type: blogs

For How Long Will We Test Drugs On Patients?
Clinical trials today are long and expensive. Pharma companies spend billions of dollars and still, at the end of the day a drug might not become approved. On the one hand, this creates a huge risk for them to invest into innovation, on the other hand patients sometimes have to wait for unnecessarily long until a new drug reaches the market. The Sisyphean task called human clinical trial I honestly hate sitting on panel discussions. I like offering solutions to problems through my keynotes, but panel discussions rarely provide a chance for that. Still, I accept invitations and sit on these panels with the thought that you...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 5, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Clinical Trials Future of Pharma artificial intelligence drug development gc3 Healthcare in silico trials Innovation Medicine simulation Source Type: blogs

Faculty Jobs in Microbial/Genomics fields
Here are some links to a few faculty positions University of Texas at Arlington Two Assistant or Associate Professor positions with a research focus in Microbiology in Dept of Biology. UTArlington microbiologist Virgina Tech Evolutionary Biologist (Assistant Professor Level) Bioinformatics and Microbiome Systems Biologist (Assistant Professor Level) Dartmouth University Microbial Computational and Systems Biology  Dartmouth MCSB Apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/37550 Faculty Position in Microbial Ecology http://apply.interfolio.com/36648 Cal StateDominguez Hills A marine biologist or computational biologist...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - September 24, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: job jobs bioinformaticse evolutionary biology faculty jobs microbiology Source Type: blogs

Science fiction prepares you for dream worlds and ethical apocalypses
Science fiction is the bridge between what we envision for the far future and what we see in practice today. By showing us the possible dream worlds or living hells, such works of art touch upon the most relevant moral, ethical, social or political issues linked to technological progress. One of the most pressing questions of mankind has been for millennia what the future is about to bring upon us? How will it look like? How can we prepare for it? Before the industrial revolution and the age of Enlightenment, the Gods and Goddesses and their mouthpieces such as prophets and oracles had all the answers. In the latest centur...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 24, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: imported AI film future genomics Innovation literature Medicine robotics sci-fi science fiction social media technology Source Type: blogs