Posts Categorized: Lifesciences 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.

President Chair’s Comment

By Stefan Mozar, Chair Life Science Technical Committee
I welcome you to the first LSTC newsletter!

Next Generation DNA Led Analysis – Challenges and Threats

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.

Research Profile: Cerebral Palsy

By Prof. Alistair McEwan, Cerebral Palsy Alliance, University of Sydney
Advances 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.

News: Research Grants, Call for Applications, Upcoming Events

Upcoming events and calls for participation of interest to the Life Sciences community.

Past Event Report: Life Sciences Conference ’17 Sydney

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.

Water Quality Revisited

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.

NASA GeneLab Commences Countdown To Combine Space, Data, Analytics

Project will provide window to human biology and health

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.

IEEE Life Sciences: Spotlight on Research in Biological Imaging

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

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.

Leveraging Life Sciences Research On the International Space Station

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.