Researchers at the Battelle Memorial Institute, a private and non-profit company of applied science and technology and Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center recently reported in the journal Cell that they had successfully restored the sense of touch of a patient with severe spinal cord injury

As reported by AIMed earlier, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic quickens technology adoption. Many medical institutions are opening up to new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) for the very first time to help them manage the immense number of patients and shoulder the pressure put upon he

Last week, Microsoft announced the launch of a new effort – an Open Data Campaign to promote data sharing and usage. In a blog article written by the Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Jennifer Yokoyama, the tech giant plans to roll out the Campaign in three steps. First, a new set of guidelines o

Bluetooth is a wireless technology which uses short-wavelength radio waves to facilitate the building of personal area network (i.e., interconnectivity among electronic devices within one’s workplace) or exchanges of data between mobile devices in close proximity. The first consumer Bluetooth was ma

In December 2016, The University of Chicago Medical Center signed a contract with Google on a research partnership which would allow the latter to use de-identified data from the Center’s electronic health records to improve on its predictive analytics power. Last June, a class-action was filed in t

Although lockdown, contact tracing; quarantine and social distancing are measures widely exercised by many countries to prevent the spread of coronavirus during Covid-19 pandemic, it’s challenging to quantify their respective efficacy. This is especially so as some may have infected others before th

Recently, four researchers from Google invented a program called “AutoML-Zero”. It is a software that is capable of creating new artificial intelligence (AI) programs without human interventions by relying only on rudimentary high school mathematical concepts. Borrowing the concept of Darwinian evol

Last month, the White House announced the launch of the Covid-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. The initiative aimed to render researchers around the world with access to some of the most powerful computing resources and assist in their respective effort to combat against the ongoing coronav