Cool Research & Sexy Tech

Not all ideas are immediately investable or implementable, but they may be one day. We present some of the newest breakthroughs from labs and universities around the world.

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France’s Bioptimus Releases AI Model for Disease Diagnosis

Are AI-created tools destined to become open source?—K Health, an AI-based American startup behind a chatbot that speaks to patients, recently raised $50 million in a transaction that values the company at about $900 million. What happens to those investments when the product is available for free?

Remote Blood Pressure Monitoring Provides Measurable Improvements

Tele-monitoring and nurse case management in black and hispanic patients with stroke shows promise—The reasons for the improvements remain unproven, but awareness and focused attention often have these results in behavioral studies. That is possibly very good news for remote care innovation and the increased prevalence of home-based care.

Startup Brings New Hope to the Pursuit of Reviving Frozen Bodies

Unsurprisingly the hard part is waking up. You can’t just plop them into a bowl of warm water. Currently they still need to vivisect you into thin slices…so I wouldn’t go signing up anytime soon.—Cradle Healthcare is developing technology on reversible cryonics placing people with illnesses into a frozen state and then reviving them at some stage in the future.

Rethinking the “Good Death” Narrative When Consoling Bereaved Parents

“How the f*ck is your child dying considered a ‘good death’? Come on.”—Perhaps the idea of providing a comforting “good death” for terminal children is consoling for health care providers, but the idea that it is a palliative to parents seems to be a fantasy.

Could We Grow Human Organs INSIDE Animals? Should We?

Gene replacement and other new technologies are opening the door for increased use of animal organs in humans—There were 46,630 organ transplants performed in 2023, but more than 103,000 people are still on the waiting list. On an average day, 17 people die waiting for an organ.

New Research into dementia suggests a prion-like behavior amongst protein strains within plaques in dementia patients. But could these proteins be infectious as well?

Red meat allergy caused by tick bite is spreading—and nearly half of doctors don’t know about it

Getting closer to a machine brain interface.