The future of medical research: Growing organs in a dish
Growing organs in a dish previously sounded a lot like science fiction, but it is already happening. Named by The Scientist as one of the biggest scientific advancements of 2013, researchers have grown what are called “organoids,” three-dimensional organ-buds grown in a laboratory that incorporate certain features that closely resemble those of human organs. Organoids […]
AI learns to help you doodle
Google recently unveiled a new tool to help you make better doodles.[1] When someone doodles in Autodraw, the software’s trained neural network recognizes the sketch and suggests clip art based on object recognition. Autodraw is Google’s newest A.I. experiment. (You can access other live Google A.I. experiments here.) Take for example here, a rough sketch […]
Taming the healthcare data tsunami with predictive analytics
We are now inundated with a tsunami of data–a metaphor used by many to refer to the speed and quantity of data being generated. The healthcare industry is a key contributor to this data tsunami. Healthcare data is estimated at 500 petabytes in 2012 and is expected to skyrocket to 25,000 petabytes by 2020. This […]
