I’ve recently come across Ecosphere which is a really creative idea for those who would like to see something different from an aquarium or a terrarium on their desks.
Inside each EcoSphere are active micro-organisms, bright red shrimp and algae, each existing in filtered sea water. Because the EcoSphere is a self-sustaining ecosystem, you never have [...]

Medgadget reported about the walking humanoid, PETMAN, developed by Boston Dynamics. I have never seen such a realistic movement from a robot.

I tried to find other similar videos just to highlight the difference:

And a walking robotic dog:

Do you remember Personas that visualizes the map of your online presence? Here is a better solution. From one point of view, it’s great to have such a useful tool as Google Social Search. A short video about what it is and how it works.
Social Search taps into a user’s social network profiles and displays [...]

Yesterday I found out I had 20 invitations for a Google Wave account. I asked my followers on Twitter whether anyone needed one, and I got over 80 requests. It seems people would like to give it a try. But what about other developments that also aim to change the way we communicate. Here is [...]

Midwifery, birth and Second Life

Can Training in Second Life Teach Doctors to Save Real Lives? (Discover)

A Virtual Science Environment in Second Life

Mary Anne Clark describes the organization and uses of Genome Island, a virtual laboratory complex constructed in Second Life. Genome Island was created for teaching genetics to university undergraduates but also provides a public [...]

Barbara Duck at The Medical Quack published an interesting article about new devices that help report health data compliance wirelessly. One example is the VenaHub device:

David Rothman shared a useful video that describes the new interface of Pubmed, the database of biomedical information.

HIPAA’s Broken Promise (e-Patients.net)

Self-Tracking Wins at the Mayo Clinic (The Quantified Self)

Physicians Using Twitter (iCons in Medicine)

The latest Parkinson’s treatment: Wii-hab (Times Online)

Could a real hope of improving the lives of people with Parkinson’s disease — here, now, in their own homes — lie in a computer game? With major drug breakthroughs still tantalisingly [...]

Here is an interview with Kevin Pho, the author of the popular KevinMD blog. He talks about why he blogs, what results he has seen and the future of the medical blogosphere. Recorded with Rohit Bhargava at Blogworld Expo 2009 in Las Vegas.

If you want to track your fitness, your diet and sleep, FitBit is something you will really like. Tim Stevens on Engadget had a detailed review with videos and screenshots. The wireless device that can be carried in a pocket or clipped to clothing, tracks calories burned and sleep cycles to help users be [...]

Lee Aase from Mayo Clinic shared an interesting story with us at the recent Reshape 2009 event in the Netherlands. They placed a piano in the lobby of the hospital and an old couple showed their talent.

The video became a viral one and now has more than 4 million visits. A few weeks later, [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the medical and scientific implications of Google Wave that might revolutionize the way we communicate nowadays. But it’s hard to demonstrate its power without real examples. This video shows how to combine Google Wave with the medical data stored in Google Health:

Artificial Intelligent Doctor:
Systematic and thorough: can check [...]

Scientists Decipher The 3-D Structure Of The Human Genome

The researchers report two striking findings. First, the human genome is organized into two separate compartments, keeping active genes separate and accessible while sequestering unused DNA in a denser storage compartment.
Second, at a finer scale, the genome adopts an unusual organization known in mathematics as a “fractal.” [...]

A few months ago, I shared many interesting resources that help how the recent H1N1 outbreak can be followed online but have you ever thought about tracking diseases through an interactive map by using the information uploaded by people from around the world? Here is Trendsmap, the combination of Google Maps and Twitter trends.

I did [...]

This video has been generated during a course for young scientists that has been held in Siena in April 2009: “Scientific communication to general public: different languages, different media, but only one clear message”.

Christopher Boyer has recently interviewed Chris Bevolo and also featured the great and creative videos of Half the Men.
Minnesota men in this age category register to be organ and tissue donors at a lower rate than the general population. The Half The Men initiative seeks to raise the rate of registration in this group to [...]

Dr. Val Jones has recently uploaded 3 videos as a part of a long series of patient education and inspirational story videos. These feature hospital safety described by Paul Levy, author of Running a Hospital blog.
“Paul Levy, President & CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, discusses his innovative approach to keeping patients [...]

My good friend, Lucien Engelen, among others, launched Health 2.0 Challenge, a great initiative aiming to improve healthcare.
Healthcare faces a considerable challenge given: more demand for care, fewer people and higher quality. This demands for innovation!
Therefore, not only one answer is needed, but a couple of solutions are needful. Do you want to participate in [...]

In the era of next-generation sequencing, it’s worth taking a look at the old sequencing method designed by Sanger:

And the reason why it’s worth it is Wired just featured a video describing the Helicos high-speed gene sequencing method. It’s incredible to see that kind of improvement.

Andre Blackman has recently done an interview with Susannah Fox who is the prominent voice of the Pew Internet Project.