Scientists Create Human Stomach Tissue
Scientific breakthroughs are occurring at a steady clip. Many of the breakthroughs are aimed at medicine. As artificial intelligence (AI) comes on the scene, we will be increasingly amazed at what is happening. The good news is the breakthroughs will result in improved outcomes. We will see cures for things previously without cures. Hopefully, many of […]
Correction: 3-D Printing Meniscus for Your Knee
A physician surgeon friend enlightened me about the story I posted last week. I was not 100% accurate in what I wrote. I always appreciate feedback about my blog posts, especially if it highlights an error on my part. The following is what he said. John, I’ve been meaning to respond to the e-mail from you […]
3-D Printing Meniscus for Your Knee
Baby boomers have a lot in common. One thing is the need for joint replacements. The annual number of knee and hip replacements is nearly one million. Looking ahead we may not have enough surgeons to meet the demand. The demand comes from injury, overuse, and arthritic deterioration of cartilage. We have all heard the phrase, “I am down to bone on bone”. Breakthroughs […]
If This Then That (IFTTT)
A little more than five years ago, a couple of tech entrepreneurs in San Francisco got the idea to develop something new. The idea was to create a free web-based service which allows users to create chains of simple conditional statements, called applets, which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, or Weather Underground. They […]
Breakthrough to Fight Hearing Loss
In 1985, we were living in Atlanta, Georgia, but still had a vacation cottage in Pennsylvania. We visited there for Thanksgiving that year and found our property, as expected, covered with leaves. I put the orange backpack leaf blower on and started blowing the leaves away. After a couple of hours, the gas was gone and […]