President Chair’s Comment
By Stefan Mozar, Chair Life Science Technical Committee
I welcome you to the first LSTC newsletter!
IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.
By Stefan Mozar, Chair Life Science Technical Committee
I welcome you to the first LSTC newsletter!
By A Dr. Amit Kumar, CEO & CSO, BioAxis DNA Research Centre (P) Ltd
DNA is the source of life and has been studied since a generation, but very little is known about it as yet.
By Prof. Alistair McEwan, Cerebral Palsy Alliance, University of SydneyAdvances in mobility, communication and thought-to-speech technologies are progressing at such a speed that two Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA) research staff are convinced major breakthroughs are not far away.
Upcoming events and calls for participation of interest to the Life Sciences community.
By Chris Poneil
The inaugural life science conference was hosted at the University of Technology in Sydney Australia over three days in late August 2017.
By Cynthia Weber
Recent research is offering alternatives for cleaning up water supply, and new apps may put the power of monitoring into the people’s hands.
By Leslie Mertz
A little more than three years ago, NASA introduced GeneLab, an initiative to collect data from pioneering biology experiments in the microgravity of space that generate enormous amounts of genomics and other omics data, and provide access to not only the mass of information, but also the data-mining and -analysis tools to help make the data as useful as possible now and in the years to come.
By Cynthia Weber
IEEE Life Sciences spoke with Michael Liebling from the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland and the University of California Santa Barbara about current research and developments in biological imaging and analysis.
Leslie Mertz, Ph.D. is an experienced science, technology, medical, and environmental writer who has written for numerous magazines, and other media and publishing outlets. She has authored nine books, co-authored a 10th, and written a wide variety of articles and chapters for additional books.
by Patrick O’Neill
During the construction phase of the International Space Station (ISS), the facility was billed as the ultimate learning platform—capable of enabling technologies and discoveries not possible through ground-based experimentation. Roughly four years ago, the space station was officially completed, finally allowing researchers access to this unique environment for experimentation.