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Here are the important research happening in healthcare technology  that can get us inspired to find solutions to other related problems: 1. Detecting sleep stages using wifi RF signals - see how this works: http://sleep.csail.mit.edu/  As you can see, its all about Deep learning  algorithm that is being  developed to detect sleep stages that can  further be correlated to different health  conditions. It  definitely  inspires us to figure out  what other health conditions can be found without the need of a sensor that human needs to wear. This also raises questions that  whether future is bleak for wearable sensor devices? 2.  Contact lenses that deliver drugs directly to the eye - A company called TheraOptix won the prestigious MIT Sloan Healthcare innovation prize yesterday.  http://news.mit.edu/2018/contact-lenses-deliver-drugs-directly-eye-sloan-healthcare-innovations-prize-0309 This is a big breakthrough ...

Its time for team based project for my Fall class at SJSU again. It requires a great deal of passion and team effort to do something that has not done before. I always encourage my students to think big and solve a problem which has not been solved before. And trust me, there are plenty of problems which might have solutions but either they are not uniquely addressing the problem or they can't be afforded by the masses. Anyway, here again I am posting some ideas that you can research and brainstorm to come up on a problem statement. 1. Barcode of Life (DNA Barcoding) DNA barcoding is a molecular-based identification system that aims to identify biological specimens, and to assign them to a given species.  DNA based identification for multi cellular life is an emerging concept and scientists from 25 countries have got together to create a database of DNA barcodes (BOLD) to solve multi-faceted problems.  Here are some potential use cases: a) Timber and wild life traff...

It could be possible in future. Today TV channels reported this news story based on the research report published in nature magazine. Harvard scientists saw a dramatic reversal of ageing process in mice and they believe it can work on humans too. Read the full story here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/28/scientists-reverse-ageing-mice-humans

On the occasion of International Peace day, this article is a must read for all of us. http://www.wikihow.com/Live-in-Peace

There is a new business trend in fitness these days - boosting the brain. USC and Mayo clinic  scientists in a joint research study funded by a company called Posit Science claimed that company's software users improved their auditory processing speed by 60%. There has been boost in sales for brain teaser games, brain friendly nutritional food items, software and games. Here is a list of facts many of us do not know about our brain(taken from Cognifit website): When you’re sleeping, your brain stays awake. While you're awake, your brain generates about 25 watts of power. That’s enough to illuminate a light bulb, so you should be grateful that’s not happening while you’re asleep. Your brain is a power hog. Although it makes up only 2% of your body's weight, it uses 20% of your body's energy. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body, and the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body. Some experts estimate the average per...

When we think about what will make us happy, we are often wrong, so I started googling if there are any scientific study done on this subject.  Indeed there are, and scientists like Daniel Gilbert  professor of psychology at Harvard and author of the 2007 bestseller Stumbling on Happiness  believe that people have difficulty predicting what they will like and how much they will like it. Gilbert conducted research by asking people how much they will like a future event about which they knew nothing except how much other strangers have enjoyed them. Basically Gilbert concluded that we are very poor at predicting our own happiness, however we can predict better about our own happiness by knowing how much a stranger had enjoyed by doing / buying the same thing. Probably, online marketers have learned from this aspect of human psychology to market goods and services along with stranger's experience (user feedback and recommendation)  about  t...

I am currently reading the book GenoType Diet and I must say, its probably the best health and nutrition book I have ever read. I haven't read Dr. D'Adamo's previous books (Blood Type Diet and Eat right 4 your type) his GenoType calculator and formulas are already making sense to me. So, What is GenoType ? According to Dr. D'Adamo, an individual's GenoType determines every trivial details such as shape of your teeth, length of your legs and the pattern of your finger prints. The most importantly, your GenoType decides, which illness you are most at risk for, which food will suit you and help achieve happier and healthier life. Sounds interesting? Wait, by the time you finish reading this blog, I am sure you are going to order this book or reserve at library. Dr. D'Adamo has identified six GenoTypes: the Hunter, the Gatherer, the Teacher, the Explorer, the Warior and the Nomad. He provided simple tests in the book which if you take, will decide your GenoType. ...