Health & Medicine

H1N1 Virus

Pathogens like the pandemic H1N1 flu virus can now be as easily tracked as the weather using Supramap, a new web application that maps genetic mutations onto a virtual globe such as Google Earth or NASA World Wind.

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Food color palette

What would you do with a complete memory of your entire life? Would you relive your first kiss? Figure out what triggered your recent migraine? Remember the name that goes with the familiar face in front of you?

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Medivac helicopter.

Remember all those SF movies where it takes suspended animation to travel to a distant planet or galaxy?

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Brain Imaging. Photo courtesy of Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss is known for creating desirable lenses, but did you know their creations aren’t limited to just enabling you to get a crisp clean snapshot of your night out on the town?

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Cool Machine. Photo courtesy of TransMedics

TransMedics, Inc. in Andover, Mass. has come up with the Organ Care System, an ingenious solution to the specter of medical staffers looking like they’re going to a frat party while carrying vital organs in a hospital cooler.

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Medical Symbol

Part of the reason that many people read h+ and other radical technology publications is to get ideas about how to live longer. People tend to become like those they are around, so it makes sense if you want to live to 150, you want to help your friends live longer.

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Swine Flu

Is the so-called Novel Swine Influenza A (H1N1) a fluke? Is it about to disappear from the landscape as another 'could have been' red-herring danger like the bird flu that failed to materialize? The answer to these questions is definitely 'no!'

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Cells

You’ve tried the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet, and the diet-of-the-week on cable TV. Nothing seems to work. Nothing seems to work. What if you could lose that excess fat by simply inhaling and then exhaling your fat in the form of carbon dioxide?

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