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Why Cities Keeping Growing, Corporations And People Always Die, And Life Gets Faster

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From edge.org - October 4, 2012 6:03 PM

Wonderful interview with Geoffrey West - high energy phycisist and former president of the SantaFe Institute. This one reflects neatly a lot fo what we work on at Complex Insight: "..as a scientist, can we take these ideas and do what we did in biology, at least based on networks and other ideas, and put this into a quantitative, mathematizable, predictive theory, so that we can understand the birth and death of companies, how that stimulates the economy? How it's related to cities? How does it affect global sustainability and have a predictive framework for an idealized system, so that we can understand how to deal with it and avoid it? If you're running a bigger company, you can recognize what the metrics are that are driving you to mortality, and possibly put it off, and hopefully even avoid it." Clic on the image or the title to learn more.

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Scientists make 'lab-grown' kidney

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From www.bbc.co.uk - April 15, 2:50 AM
A kidney "grown" in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.
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While a long time away, developments such as this hold out long term promise of a revolution for organ transplants in the future, potentially removing the need for immunosuppressants and increasing the number of available organs for those waiting for treatment. Click on the image or title to learn more.

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Antibiotic 'apocalypse' warning

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From www.bbc.co.uk - January 24, 11:00 AM
The rise in drug resistant infections is comparable to the threat of global warming, according to the chief medical officer for England.
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Perhaps appropriate that Prof Sally Davies used the comparison to global warming in that at least popular press coverage of antibiotic resitatnce tends to either saw from the dismissive to the apocalyptic. Good interview by the BBC - worth reading.

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CLARITY gives a clear view of the brain

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From www.guardian.co.uk - April 12, 3:37 AM
Mo Costandi: A simple new method makes biological tissues transparent, so that they can be examined without having to be cut into slices
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If you have ever had to try to make sense of a tissue sectioning slice then you may find this incredible. Nature video on guardian site is very much worth watching. For technical reference see Chung, K., et al. (2013). Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature12107

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The Future of Medical Visualisation - Technology Review

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From www.technologyreview.com - July 14, 2012 10:44 AM

Medicine has been revolutionised by 3D imaging techniques. In the last five years, commercial CT scanners that can create 3D videos of a beating heart or new diffusion imaging techniques that enable imaging of  nerve bundles and muscle fibres have started to become available. A great tech piece in Technology Review covers where medical imaging is going next. Certainly worth reading. Click on the image or the title to learn more...

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