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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.
Dr. Shahram Ebadollahi is the senior manager of the Healthcare Systems and Analytics Research at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. He and the team of scientists working with him conduct research in the broad area of health informatics.
By Chalapathy Neti, Shahram Ebadollahi, Martin Kohn, David Ferrucci
IBM Watson is a new class of industry specific analytical solutions that leverages deep content analysis and evidence based reasoning to accelerate and improve decisions and optimize outcomes.
By Dr. Christopher Voigt
Living cells are the ultimate programming substrate. The last 15 years has seen the design of simple “genetic circuits” that are encoded in DNA and perform their function in the cellular milieu. A gene circuit harnesses biochemical interactions to generate a computational …
Dr. Christopher Voigt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT, and is co-director of the Center for Integrative Synthetic Biology. Previously, he was a member of the faculty in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of California, San Francisco. …
Dr. Martin Kohn is Chief Medical Scientist for Care Delivery Systems in IBM Research. He is a leader in IBM’s support for the transformation of healthcare, including development of personalized care, outcomes-based models and payment reform.
Dr. Martin Kohn is the Chief Medical Scientist for Health Care Delivery at IBM Research. Here he discusses work underway to apply the IBM Watson supercomputer to meet needs in the healthcare field today.
By Nitish Thakor
Prosthetic limb technology has been revolutionized with the development of the anthropomorphic prosthetic arm with over 20 degrees of freedom. While this is truly remarkable technology, its intuitive control can be challenging. The first article in this series reviewed brain …
Bin He, IEEE Fellow, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, discusses the importance of the IEEE Life Sciences Initiative.
By Nitish Thakor
A prosthesis revolution is underway. New limb prostheses deploy very advanced materials and robotic technology. For instance, dexterous upper limbs designed by John’s Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Labratory and a commercial company, DEKA, display 22 degrees of freedom. But along with this is …
By Luke P. Lee
Humankind has always been fascinated with space exploration and reaching up to the stars. Scientific discovery and breakthroughs in technology allow us to explore space outside our solar system. Now we are learning how to explore inner life of living cells. By …
