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Shutdown Imperils Costly Lab Mice, Years Of Research
The government shutdown is likely to mean an early death for thousands of mice used in research on diseases such as diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer's. Read More »
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Shutdown Leaves Program Feeding Women And Infants In Lurch
Among those affected by the chaos of the government shutdown are 9 million low-income women and children who may be worrying where next week's meal is going to come from. Read More »
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Shutdown Of DHS Chemical-Security Program Prompts Strong Words
The Homeland Security Department's chemical-security program ceased most operations this week as a result of the federal shutdown, prompting concerns about how the government will improve security in the wake of this year's fatal explosion in Texas. Read More »
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Shutdown Salmonella Outbreak Continues. CDC Food Safety Chief: ‘We Have A Blind Spot.’
We’re 11 days now into the federal shutdown and four days since the announcement of a major foodborne outbreak in chicken that is challenging the shutdown-limited abilities of the food-safety and disease-detective personnel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture. Here’s an update. Read More »
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Shutterstock's Chris Fischer: Making The Most Of Open Source's 'Huge Tech Edge'
"Some of the most mature databases have been open-source-based. Also, the most mature Web servers in the market are open source software. Considering the level of maturity and the capabilities of the technology, I would take open source over any proprietary software. Read More »
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Signove And AT4 Wireless Successfully Work Together For Continua Health Alliance First Complete Application Host Device (AHD) Certification
Signove has successfully completed the Continua Health Alliance certification at AT4 wireless laboratory for the Signove HM4A, an Application Host Device (AHD) supporting two wireless interfaces (Bluetooth® as a Personal Area Network interface (PAN), and 3G interface as a Wide Area Network (WAN)). Read More »
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Signs Of Innovation At RFP-EZ
Radically reforming how government operates is a tall order. Plenty of projects have worn the mantle of innovation but fallen into the same old bureaucratic traps. Read More »
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Silicon gurney: EHR go-lives turn hospitals into software shops
Hospitals invest so much money in EHR implementations that it changes the very nature of their organization. And that means they need to think about operating more like a software company than just a hospital. If $100 million sounds like an exorbitant or even unrealistic ticket for an electronic health records platform, in fact, consider that Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic and Partners HealthCare have publicly acknowledged spending an order of magnitude more than that — while other hospitals such as Scripps Health, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Lahey Hospital Medical Center and Lifespan revealed budgets bigger than $100 million. And that’s just to rattle off a fistful...
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Silicon Valley Gets Inspiration from South America at Endeavor Uruguay
While everybody looks at Silicon Valley as the mecca for innovation, local entrepreneurs and investors look at South America for inspiration. Read More »
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Silicon Valley Was Going to Disrupt Capitalism. Now It’s Just Enhancing It
The tech giants thought they would beat old businesses but the health and finance industries are using data troves to become more, not less, resilient. The chances that, in a few years’ time, people will be able to receive basic healthcare without interacting with a technology company became considerably smaller after recent announcements of two intriguing but not entirely unpredictable partnerships. One is between Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline...
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Silicon Valley, Meet Innovation From Great Rift Valley
Across Africa, an innovation culture is starting to emerge. In Kenya, PesaPal piggybacks on the popular M-PESA mobile payments service, enabling Kenyans to buy and sell on the Internet. Tanzania's Techno Brain is selling software for managing businesses in 13 countries. And South Africa's Cobi Interactive... is developing popular applications for smart phones. Read More »
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Simon Crosby Explains Citrix's Open Source XenServer Move
Simon Crosby, Citrix Systems' chief technology officer and founder of XenSource, is our guest on this edition of This Week in Virtualization. Read More »
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Simple Circuits – An Open Source Hardware Analog Arsenal
I wonder if this has happened to you. You see an awesome project online and you think “I am going to make that rad thing-a-ma-jig”. It looks easy after all, and if that 5th grader and his dad did it, then darn it – so can I. Read More »
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Simulators Help Build A Better Drug Trial
Researchers have started using powerful computer simulators to design better drug trials and help bring new medicines to market with fewer failures. Read More »
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Singapore's POLARIS uses DNAnexus Platform for Clinical Genomics Tests
DNAnexus Inc...today announced that POLARIS (Personalized OMIC Lattice for Advanced Research and Improving Stratification), is now using DNAnexus to enable a series of genomic tests. The production-scale clinical applications will be used by the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS). POLARIS was established by A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) in 2011 to pilot the application of clinical omics in the treatment and diagnosis of medical diseases in Singapore. POLARIS will leverage the DNAnexus Platform to support testing for gastrointestinal (GI) and solid tumor cancers. This is part of a systematic effort to develop a nationwide framework for omics-based tests.
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