Graphene Flexes its Muscles
Graphene is amazing. Things it makes possible will seem like miracles. (See prior stories about graphene in the Attitude LLC blog.) In combination with 3-D printing, graphene may accelerate the possibilities for printing human tissues, including organs. A team of biomedical, electrical engineering, and materials science PhDs published an article about how graphene foam can be a scaffold for […]
Election Attitude is Here
Election season is upon us. The 2016 Election Countdown Clock shows 87 days to go. Millions of citizens will cast their votes. We should be concerned about how many will actually be counted. Other headlines about voter registration and voting are making headlines. The four stories highlighted below are just a small sample. There are […]
Telehealth Shortens Wait Time for Vets
The Department of Veterans Affairs has struggled with exceptionally long wait times for veterans to see a physician. The wait has been especially long in California as the problem is compounded with exceptionally long driving times. New telehealth services similar to Skype or FaceTime have changed the equation. In some cases the wait has dropped from three months to […]
Chinese Scientists To Perform Gene-Editing Trial On Humans
CRISPR-Cas9 is not exactly a household name. CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Cas9 stands for CRISPR associated protein 9, an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease enzyme associated with CRISPR. If you read what they really stand for, it might make your head hurt. It is really complex. CRISPR was discovered in 2007 when a yogurt company found a bacteria which could eliminate viruses. The technology has evolved dramatically […]
Election System as Critical Infrastructure
An excellent article in the WSJ this morning said, “The U.S. is considering classifying the country’s election system as part of its ‘critical infrastructure’, putting it on par with the electrical and banking systems…” The White House added, “The president has confidence in the integrity of our electoral process and everybody else should, too.” Not to […]
