Dr Kai Johnsson has been working in the area of super resolution imaging and has come up with some very useful fluorescent probes for glutamate, switchable flourophores for protein labeling, caged rhodamine derivates among other research on membrane biology. His group just showed another interesting probe that can go inside the membrane and can be…
It is known through significant psychological research that humans are very sensitive to loss. That means the sad feeling of loss is much stronger than happiness feeling of gain. This manifests itself in strange ways. For example, in the stock market, the possibility to avoid a loss makes people take wrong decisions – they delay…
Currently the line of thinking is that technology is complex and we need to complex instrumentation and thoughtful experiments over a long period of time before a new technology is created. However, consider time. We take for granted that the clock divides the day into 60 minutes, with 60 seconds per minute and 24 hours…
There is a nice example of a company that adapted its strategy to market in the USA. The company is called SodaStream it received an acknowledgement for being in the 50 best companies by Fast Company. SodaStream realized that if it had to market in the US, then it had to adapt to what Americans…
It is surprising that something has common as ink that we use for writing has been innovated in so many ways but not too many innovations are successful. The purpose of ink, whether in a pen on paper or in printer on paper has been primarily used to display objects on paper and that is…
Electrocardiogram (ECG) has typically been done with an 12 lead device that measures the change in voltage at different terminals. This machine is rugged and sensitive to other signals. However, disruption of this technology is happening from small iPhone based devices that record ECG using just two sensors that are placed behind the phone. A…
When screening for phenotypes there are many methods that are used. Usin’Life uses artificial intelligence methods to analyze the image data sets but there have other laboratories that use other interesting methods. Dr Lu’s lab published a paper in Nature methods (Nat. Methods 9, 977–980, 2012) that uses microfluidic technology to determine the phenotypic characteristics…
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates significant portion of medically relevant devices and drugs but it is probably not as well known that they also regulate the software that is used to power many of the studies. There are significant guidelines from FDA that are used for manufacturers of software that regulate medical devices. The…
Usin’Life is working on developing a mobile applications for fluorescence spectra observation. Typically, the android market has several applications that show the spectra but they are very company specific. This makes a user struggle to find the spectra of interest. If they have access to the computer then one way to do this is to…
This is work in progress since a mobile phone with terahertz capability does not exist yet but could potentially be very useful. Terahertz waves are those in the electromagnetic spectrum that are between millimeter waves and infrared, with frequencies between 0.3 to 3 Terahertz. Currently the technology to generate and analyze them do not exist…
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