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AHA + CFD + NATO = STEMI
“Time is muscle,” cardiologists say. When someone has a heart attack, they don’t have much time. The longer blood flow through a coronary artery is blocked, the more heart muscle dies, and delays can mean permanent heart damage or death. Patients having a severe heart attack need to get to a hospital, the right hospital, […]
Texting: A Doctor in Your Pocket?
Texting has grown from technological fad to a primary route of communication popular around the world. With cell phones in the pockets of people of all incomes and ages, the quick, no-frills conversations enabled by texting have made almost everyone more proficient with their thumbs. Due to such impressive ubiquity, people in health care are […]
Medical Simulation: Beyond Training Dummies
Anyone with a video game console at home can simulate a variety of occupations: airplane pilot, race car driver, baseball player, Old West zombie hunter. As technology improves, the experience that can be created for these tasks grows ever more accurate and immersive, causing some experts to wonder whether simulation can be used for actual […]
Living Devices & Biomaterials – A Chief Molecular Engineer is Named
Late last year, we relayed the announcement of an exciting new academic program here at the University of Chicago, the Institute of Molecular Engineering. At the time, the IME had a future home (sharing the new William Eckhardt Research Center with the Physical Sciences Division) and a vision, but did not yet have a leader. […]
Linkage 2/25: AAASing From Afar, NOVA Venom, Magnetic Turtles
I’ve said it before, but the AAAS Meeting is my favorite scientific conference, a cross-disciplinary feast of research that’s perfect for omnivores of science. As I wait for the meeting to return to Chicago (2014!), I spent the week attending from afar through the many online recaps. Depending on your preferences, you can get your […]
Linkage 1/28: Dinosaurs, Nabokov’s Butterflies, and Virtual Surgery
While ScienceLife was away at the Science Online 2011 meeting two weeks ago, our friends in the University of Chicago News Office tried to sneak a dinosaur story past us. Eodromaeus, the “dawn runner,” is the latest edition to the dinosaur discovery menagerie of Paul Sereno, professor of organismal biology and anatomy, discovered in the […]
Linkage 1/21: Science Online, Kinect Surgery, & More
Last weekend, I was one of the fortunate 300 who gathered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina for the 2011 edition of Science Online. The simplest way to describe Science Online is as a science blogging conference, but the real topic on the table was the broad future of science communication, be it through blogs, […]
Linkage 1/7: Tear Communication, The Cost of Fraud
The late December quiet has given way to a post-holiday flurry of exciting research news, most of which I can’t tell you about until next week. But in the meantime, here’s our first weekly roundup for 2011 of the most interesting science and medical news around the web. Tears for Fears Scientists have discovered a […]
Year in Review: UChicago Research 2010
ScienceLife ran 219 posts in 2010, and choosing the best of them is as hard as picking a favorite gene. So here’s a month-by-month scan of a busy year at the University of Chicago Medical Center, full of exciting discoveries in the laboratory and the clinic. The impact of some of this research is already […]
