VirtualBody

Free software for the carrara 3d authoring tool to generate 3d models from video data like the kinect tool produces.

A simple but effective demonstration of what the beagle vessel was like at sea. 

This fancy strip of torso garb keeps tabs on a patient's heart rate, temperature, and other vital signs as well as their position inside of the hospital itself with a GPS-like system that functions in closed spaces. This intelligent t-shirt can also detect the patient's position - if they're sitting, lying down, standing, walking, or running.

A fscinating look into the nature of change and life. I'd consider this a version of evolution but at the scale of an individual and its life instead of a species.

An insight into games, the gaming industry and it's present and future. 

Fascinating investigation in weight and weight loss in the 21st century from a psycho social standpoint. 

Fascinating site about the organisms that lead to humans and still power our microbiome today. 

A fascinating way of looking at our lives and lifestyles. The way you think defines what you achieve and the tools you have available. 

This study, from the University of Texas, injected mice brains with brain tissue from an Alzheimer's disease patient.. The mice developed Alzheimer's disease pathology

Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of inorganic molecules -- no carbon -- that can assemble, replicate and compete.

Review of the Enter­tain­ment Soft­ware and Cog­ni­tive Neu­rother­a­peu­tics Con­fer­ence, ESCoNS, at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia San Fran­cisco. An attempt to unit neurologists and game designers. 

use kinect to scan 3d objects and add to games

Lee cronin talks about creating life from inorganic chemistry or dead stuff as he calls it

A ton of games dedicated to making biology fun

Absolutely fantastic intuitive introduction to basic cell biology. Presented as a simple game. Really interesting approach.

the known universe has now been modelled virtually. Now we can explore questions in virtual ways

Wearable sensors collect data from athletes as they're playing-data that could soon be broadcast during the game.

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. 

Virtual tools that enable  enthusiasts to collaborate on solving problems are an amazing and extremely useful resource that we should be using more of. 

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