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heard about this open source company via NASA open source summit Bioclipse is a free and open source workbench for the life sciences.

-The World Bank opened its vast storehouse of data to the public a year ago. Since then, people have come in droves--at the rate of about 100,000 a week--for thousands of free, curated and searchable datasets on education, poverty, health, water access and numerous other indicators.

Interesting ideas from John Robb on starting an open source venture...

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have fabricated superlenses from perovskite oxides that are simpler and easier to fabricate than metamaterials, and are ideal for capturing light in the mid-infrared range, which opens the door to highly sensitive biomedical detection and imaging. It is also possible that the superlensing effect can be selectively turned on/off, which would open the door to highly dense data writing and storage.

Bay Area Community Exchange Presents John Robb's Open Source Ventures Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:30 PM (PT) San Francisco, CA this is free- suggest if you can make it you make it ... should be good info

This image shows datasets that have been published in Linked Data format, by contributors to the Linking Open Data community project and other individuals and organisations.

ODE is an open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. It is fully featured, stable, mature and platform independent with an easy to use C/C++ API. It has advanced joint types and integrated collision detection with friction. ODE is useful for simulating vehicles, objects in virtual reality environments and virtual creatures.

amazing talk using open source and 3d visualisation techniques to treat cancer.  Truly impressive approach to tackling serious diseases

When the company behind the gesture technology in the Kinect came to CES a year ago to show how its 3D sensors can enable people to control their TVs with simple gestures, its execs talked about how their sensors eventually would be embedded in mobile devices, opening up a range of possible applications. PrimeSense's new 3D sensor, called Capri, is 10 times smaller than its current sensor and, according to the company, the smallest in the world. The design, says PrimeSense, allows for improved capabilities that it says will soon find its way into PCs, tablets, laptops, phones, various robots, and much more.

This is circuitry with a real twist that's able to monitor and deliver electrical impulses into living tissue. Elastic electronics are made of tiny, wavy silicon structures containing circuits that are thinner than a human hair, and bend and stretch with the body. "As the skin moves and deforms, the circuit can follow those deformations in a completely noninvasive way," says Rogers. He hopes elastic electronics will open a door to a whole range of what he calls "bio-integrated" medical devices.

Scientists and surgeons from France, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland have developed a "virtual liver", using EU research funding, which will help surgeons better plan and carry out tumour operations and ensure quicker patient recovery. Personally I just find it a shame that there is no open source repository where this work can be made available to the general public. There is definitely no way for the general public to get involved. 

hmm. Is java a viable 3d toolkit? including this as a reference to stijulate the discussion. I'm yet to be convinced. 

the head of sakai explaining how he wants education to be open, not a black box and he doesn't want people to have to wait for their institution to get the best system.  Fascinating presentation. Highlighting that developers of LMS's share our vision so they're willining to cooperate if we approach in the right way. 

Didn't know collada was on an open digital asset format to ecnourage exchange of assets. 

free open life sciences resources designed to spread knowledge of life sciences using new mediums.

This is written by the SVP of Scitable, Vikram Savkar. Seems like an amazing guy. http://www.scienceprogress.org/2010/05/invest-in-teaching/ Nice find, by the way.

A gadget to monitor your lifestyle. currently (june '11) In private beta. sounds really good. Uses extra sensors for biofeedback. Waiting until they run on android using open hardware and the hardware api.

The health battles of millions, recorded digitally, open a world of virtual research. The antidepressant Paxil was approved for sale in 1992, the cholesterol-lowering drug Pravachol in 1996. Company studies proved that each drug, on its own, works and is safe. But what about when they are taken together? By mining tens of thousands of electronic patient records, researchers at Stanford University quickly discovered an unexpected answer: people who take both drugs have higher blood glucose levels. The effect was even greater in diabetics, for whom excess blood sugar is a health danger. 

Seb sez, "The Association for Learning Technology has published a brief guide about how to tender for a new publishing contract for a scholarly journal.