David Blaine Talks The Limits of Human Physiology

I’m stretching the health technology theme on this one…

After reading about the lab freezing humans for science I thought about another video I had recently seen. Here’s David Blaine (the magician) talking about the ordeal he went through to hold his breath for more than 15 minutes. David also had this [...]

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Freezing Live Humans For Science

Courtesy of SINTEF

What we do in the name of medicine and science…

No this isn’t some evil lab experiment… well not too evil. A SINTEF lab is researching the effects of extremely low temperatures on humans physiology. 21 people have been put to a number of tests in temperatures ranging from +20 to -25 degrees [...]

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Printing Medical Labs On Paper

Courtesy of Whitesides Research Group

How do you bring modern science to the whole world without the cost? Print it on paper of course.

George Whiteside, a chemistry professor at Harvard University, has developed a prototype med lab on a paper chip which could be customized to diagnose a large number of diseases. The eventual [...]

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