A patch for flu vaccine production
While we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop and a nasty, rip roaring flu pandemic to come rushing down the tracks at us, lots of companies have jumped into the pandemic vaccine sweepstakes....
View ArticleA new way to skin the CAT (scan)
Many years ago — about 40 to be exact — I was working as the only medical doctor in a bioengineering research laboratory in a famous technological university. A lot of what was done there involved...
View ArticleHospital hazards, “Holy Crap” Department
We take for it granted that technology can be used to tag objects in various ways, useful and otherwise. The anti-theft devices used on retail clothing stores are a familiar example. Radio Frequency...
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No nose is good nose (or, how to improve penile tactile sensation)
One of the effects of high gas prices is to encourage people to use bicycles. This also includes the police, where some jurisdictions are taking cops out of cruisers and putting them on foot or on...
View ArticleRed flag on the flu vaccine front
A story in CIDRAP News by the always excellent science journalist Maryn McKenna provides food for thought:. A flu vaccine manufacturer’s decision not to build a US facility has highlighted the...
View ArticleBioengineered tissue transplant saves a life
There is a story on the wires today about an upcoming Lancet article describing the case of a young Columbian woman whose failing airway was replaced by a bioengineered airway whose cells were cultured...
View ArticlePiggy-backing flu on smallpox vaccine
There is as yet no pandemic bird flu vaccine but there are a lot of potential vaccines. The recent fiasco involving Baxter International (here, here) involved one in development. There are many more....
View ArticleIs biotech a security problem?
A Reuters piece under the headline, “Biotechnology Boom Raises Security Fears: Mild Diseases Could Be Turned Into Deadly Ones, Experts Caution” we see the biotech Frankenstein/terrorist bogeyman raised...
View ArticleRationality as innovation
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano is asking academics to work with her agency to develop “innovative initiatives” to protect the nation from terrorist threats. This...
View ArticleHow technology can drive down health care costs
With health care costs growing without bounds, the medical devices industry and President Obama are hard at work. Not hard at work reducing costs. Hard at work convincing us that the solution to the...
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