The Gene Machine and Me
Ion Torrent’s chip-based genome sequencer is cheap, fast, and poised to revolutionize medicine
Electronic Pacifier Teaches Preemie Babies to Eat
Babies get musical reward for sucking correctly on pacifier
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Can One Chemical Be the Basis of All Morality?
A Techwise Conversation with Paul Zak, author of The Moral Molecule
Facebook Engineers Organ Donation
Facebook's new organ donation status may put peer pressure to good use
A 911 Registry for AEDs
Emergency dispatchers should be able to direct a caller to a public AED
Deep Brain Stimulation Shows Promise Treating Depression
Psychiatrists observe benefits at one month and even more improvement after two years of treatment
Should We Automate Intimacy?
As computers become smarter, they may take over some of our most personal interactions
Computers Key to Fighting Medicare Fraud
Geographic information systems and other technologies offer new hope for reducing government health-care fraud
Goodbye Roll Call, Hello RFIDs
A California preschool has begun using RFID tags to track attendance.
Should Police Have Access To Computerized Prescription Drug Records?
Electronic Health Record Privacy at Risk?
Vatican Radio: Still Making Waves
A new report on the health effects of the Vatican's shortwave transmitters says the church is causing cancer in children
Book Review: Taming the Beloved Beast
A noted bioethicist argues for age-based rationing of high-tech health care
Bitter Pills
Nutraceuticals are big business online. But who's minding the "scientific" claims?
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US Health Panel Calls for National Health Information Technology Error Database
Safety Database Idea Supported By Industry - At Least For the Moment
In Nanotechnology and Food What You Don't Know May Just Leave You Uninformed
UK Government draws few conclusions about nanotechnology's use in food except that food industry seems secretive
President-elect to the Bioethical Society highlights ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation
Joseph Fins has studied DBS and has much to say about using it in unconscious patients.
Electronic Health Records: Are They Worth It or Not?
Conflicting Studies Abound
The Robot Insect Race
Pentagon Cyber-Insect Flies on Command
Electronic Health Records No Guarantee of Quality Health Care
Medical Problems at Veterans Administation Serve to Highlight Issue
Pandemic Flu Could Clog U.S. Rail Lines
A simulation by systems engineers shows rail network is sensitive to pandemic flu, but port system is more robust
Engineering the Future at IEEE
IEEE Celebrates 125th Anniversary
Dream Jobs 09: Special Report
Building a solar-powered plane, creating stunning effects for Bollywood films, designing search-and-rescue robots--it's not just a job, it's engineering
Brain-wave Test Challenges Vegetative-State Diagnosis
Tests using an EEG have shown unexpected cortical functioning in vegetative patients
Rupturing The Nanotech Rapture
Biological nanobots could repair and improve the human body, but they'll be more bio than bot
Of Two Minds
The back story
Economics Of The Singularity
Stuffed into skyscrapers by the billion, brainy bugbots will be the knowledge workers of the future
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Can Machines Be Conscious?
Yes--and a new Turing test might prove it
The Consciousness Conundrum
The wetware that gives rise to consciousness is far too complex to be replicated in a computer anytime soon
Reverse Engineering The Brain
David Adler dreams of a Google map for the human brain
Singular Simplicity
The story of the Singularity is sweeping, dramatic, simple--and wrong