Breezing, a new startup based on technology developed by researchers at Arizona State University, is offering the world’s first portable device that can track an individual’s metabolism and use that information to provide diet and exercise recommendations for maintaining or reaching a healthy weight.Continue reading
Category Archives: Health
Molecular Cancer Diagnostics on BioCentury This Week
The newest edition of BioCentury This Week television explores the molecular diagnostic conundrum — where tests are expected to show the kind of clinical evidence required for drugs, but without the reward system that exists for therapeutics.Continue reading
The Tomorrow Project Comes to Biodesign
Intel’s Tomorrow Project asks… What kind of future are you imagining? What kind of future do you want to live in? What future do you want to avoid?
Through conversations about the future, can we make that future better? The Tomorrow Project sets forth that “if we want to imagine a better future and then build it then we need to change the story we are telling ourselves about the future we want to live in.”
In the videos below, Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson visits with thought leaders at The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University to explore the possibilities for shaping health, science and a better tomorrow…
(To learn more about The Tomorrow Project, Click Here.)
Biodesign, Biosignatures and Sensorbots with Deirdre Meldrum
Brian David Johnson talks to Deirdre Meldrum — ASU Senior Scientist, Director of the Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation in the Biodesign Institute at ASU, and Professor of Electrical Engineering – about transforming healthcare by detecting diseases before any symptoms appear. For instance, detecting lung cancer before a CT image would. Other topics include the development of Sensorbots monitoring biogeochemical processes in the ocean.
Biodesign, Science, and Stories of Possible Futures – a Conversation with Michael Birt
Intel futurist, Brian David Johnson talks with Michael Birt to contemplate a future in which people have a greater degree of personal control over predicting and preventing disease. Michael is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Health and Interim Co-director at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute – and author of a medical thriller set in Japan.
Dr. Gholam Peyman, LASIK Surgery Inventor, Wins National Medal of Technology and Innovation
UA College of Medicine – Phoenix Physician Among Those Honored by President
TGen sequencing analysis assists CDC in discovering extent of breakout
Fungus responsible for 5 deaths in the wake of massive tornadoContinue reading
Phoenix City Council Passes Phoenix Access to Care Ordinance
Phoenix to tax hospitals to aid uninsured patients
The Phoenix City Council on Tuesday adopted an ordinance to tax local hospitals and pool the money, a move that would generate more than $200 million in federal matching funds for the hospitals to care for uninsured and underinsured patients.
UA Cancer Center – Phoenix Project Approved for Construction
The Arizona Board of Regents has given final project approval for construction of The University of Arizona Cancer Center – Phoenix outpatient clinic at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus.Continue reading
Partners work together to accelerate development of new treatments for multiple sclerosis
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and Critical Path Institute Create the Multiple Sclerosis Outcome Assessments ConsortiumContinue reading
TGen-US Oncology Research data guides treatment of metastatic triple-negative breast cancer patients
Unprecedented genomic sequencing of 14 metastatic TNBC patients yields potential drug targetsContinue reading