Information technology has provided doctors with the ability to interpret huge amounts of data and come with accurate diagnosis, as well as treatment plans. This article describes a couple of creative ways in which information technology is being used creatively to benefit patients.
Source: MIT Sloan

Medical scientists have come closer to creating transplantable blood vessels with the help of smooth muscle tissue. These blood vessels can be grown whenever required, they can also be stored for the period of a year before being used on a human patient. Animal experiments have been promising and shown that these vessels, can last for up to a year without showing any noticeable degradation.
Source: The Economist

Fascinating details about how Disney uses technology to control the smallest of details so that
its customers could continue to have a great experience in the “Happiest Place on Earth”. They include technicians observing queues and coming out with ways to make them move faster or to offer guests alternatives and even on the spot entertainment while they wait. Other behind-the-scenes activities include analyzing flight bookings, hotel reservations and historic attendance data to determine ride capacities.

In-store electronic displays are expensive to install as well as maintain, plus retailers do not have any way of knowing how well these signs are doing their job of persuading customers. This makes store owners hesitant to invest in such displays. However, a face recognition software developed by the company CognoVision can help store owners get valuable information from their electronic displays.

Jeff Hawkins, the founder of Palm and inventor of the PalmPilot is working on building software that can imitate the human brains workings to make quick and accurate decisions. Various applications of this technology can include in anticipating where an internet surfer would click nest or judging whether a credit card transaction is fraudulent and even the possibility of a particular patient suffering a relapse.

Researchers at the Harvard Medical School have been able to reverse the ageing process in mice. And it’s not a simple slowing down or stabilization of the ageing process, but a dramatic reversal. Old feeble mice who were subject of the experiment turned into healthy animals after an enzyme called telomerase was reactivated in them.
Source: Guardian

Seattle Genetics Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co have developed a new drug for cancer which work like a guided missile. The drug SGN-35 is a combination of a cancer-seeking antibody with a tumor-killing chemical. It has cleared cancer to undetectable levels in 53 percents with anaplastic large cell lymphoma, and also cut tumor size by at least half in another 33 percent. The antibody guides the drug to cancerous cells at very high concentrations thus it prevent the drug from entering the bloodstream or affecting healthy tissues.

Dairy farming is growing by leaps and bounds in China, which also means that this industry has also become one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions. However Huishan Dairy, one of the biggest of its kind in China, has put together a win-win solution to this problem. It will be installing a system that would generate electricity from methane gas collected from fermenting cow manure. Apart from generating electricity, this strategy will prevent methane from reaching the atmosphere, produce organic fertilizer which is safer than raw manure and also reduce waste and odor.

If you are mulling over whether to sign up with a cloud computing services provider the Chief Technology Officer of HP Philip McKinney offers pointers that would help you clarify whether your business really requires or will be benefited from cloud computing, and also how you can evaluate cloud computing service providers based on your requirements.

Source: Forbes