Pokémon Wants to Prevent STDs

Pokémon has proven to b a wildly popular franchise for Nintendo, and Pokémon Go certainly continued that craze. The series is so popular that it is now being used to lure geeks to get checked for STDs.

These clever billboards are popping up around the US for STDcheck.com, reminding us that it’s not always a good thing to catch ’em all. Another organization – freeSTDcheck.org has a similar campaign running:

I always thought people that obsessively played Pokémon games probably had little to worry about catching STDs. I mean you gotta get laid to catch one.

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Get Engaged With Your Health

The latest in a trend of handy home STD tests, the Hoope ring offers painless, rapid testing for the 4 most common curable STDS (syphilis, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, and chlamydia) in one confidential test. Results are automatically shown in the Hoope app where users can also find valuable information regarding sexual health as well as follow-up recommendations for their results. Jump to the vid to see how it works!

The painless collection of blood is achieved by placing electrodes in the ring that transmit a current to block pain sensations. The risk of biowaste is mitigated by denaturating blood with special chemicals and by using a retractable needle.

For antibody detection, the device uses low cost paper-based microfluidic technology that utilizes capillary action and does not require pumps or an additional power source. Bio responses are converted into electronic signals through electrochemical reaction that allows parallel and highly sensitive assays.

Designer: Vorm Lab

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Scientists create first computer simulation of a complete organism

Scientists create first computer simulation of a complete organismEveryone, meet Mycoplasma genitalium, the subject of many scientific papers, even more vists to the clinic and now the first organism to be entirely recreated in binary. Computer models are often used for simplicity, or when studying the real thing just ain't viable, but most look at an isolated process. Stanford researchers wanted to break with tradition and selected one of the simplest organisms around, M. genitalium, to be their test subject. They collated data from over 900 publications to account for everything going on inside the bacterial cell. But it wasn't just a case of running a model of each cellular process. They had to account for all the interactions that go on -- basically, a hell of a lot of math. The team managed to recreate cell division using the model, although a single pass took almost 10 hours with MATLAB software running on a 128-core Linux cluster. The representation was so accurate it predicted what M. genitalium looks like, just from the genetic data. And, despite the raft of research already conducted on the bacterium, the model revealed previously undiscovered inconsistencies in individual cell cycles. Such simulations could be used in the future to better understand the complicated biology of diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. Looks like we're going to need more cores in that cluster. If you'd like to hear Stanford researcher Markus Covert's view on the work, we've embedded some footage beyond the fold.

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