MIT’s WiGait Helps Diagnose Cognitive Decline and Cardiac Disease by Measuring Walking Speed With Wireless Signals


It is common sense that breath rate, blood pressure, body temperature and pulse rate lend a peek into the general health of the patient.Yet the medicos missed one very vital function which is the...

Alphabet starts collecting health info to better predict disease

It didn't take long for Alphabet's Verily to get its watch-based health study off the ground. The life sciences company has launched its 4-year research initiative, Baseline, to potentially spot early signs of diseases before obvious symptoms appear....

AI predicts the layout of human stem cells

The structures of stem cells can vary wildly, even if they're genetically identical -- and that could be critical to predicting the onset of diseases like cancer. But how do you know what a stem cell will look like until it's already formed? That's w...