Your genome on your iPhone

Your genome on your iPhone @iTunes http://t.co/5yr9OHYJs8 via @portablegenomic #DTC #genomics #DNA #app #CDoM @TEDMED pic.twitter.com/YakoDbE5j0
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) August 15, 2014

Genome med & molecular diag. will bring a revn the same way as the digital tech did. #Apple & #Samsung will WANT this http://t.co/5yr9OHYJs8
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) August 7, 2014

"Fair trade big data sharing": @portablegenomic YES! We NEED this alternative. Data sharing shouldn't B detrimental 2 patient #DTC #genomics
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) August 7, 2014

Eric Topol MD: "You’ll be able to use your phone to image parts of your body. So let’s say you’re worried about your heart. You can just take your phone, put it on your chest and it will take pictures of your heart and an ultrasound. Or if you want to do your own breast screen, instead of a mammogram, you could use your phone to do an ultrasound of your breast – which is much more sensitive than a mammogram."

http://seniorplanet.org/eric-topol-on-the-health-revolution

Should Mammograms Go The Way of The Dinosaurs? http://t.co/Xx6RwtGvj2 http://t.co/sS0mOof2O2
— Marie Oser (@vegtv) August 1, 2014

Maybe we should do it? #genomics #DNA #DTC #PrecisionMedicine @portablegenomic ;-) pic.twitter.com/WghqQVIsWZ
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) August 11, 2014

Top Ten Bioinformatics Apps for Busy Researchers http://t.co/O1KdrPXBKX
— naveenbioinformatics (@nav4bioinfo) August 15, 2014

GeneGroove App in the Top Ten Bioinformatics Apps for Busy Researchers, via @nav4bioinfo & NaveeNBioinforMaTics blog http://t.co/a0kAf5YIoC
— Portable Genomics (@portablegenomic) August 16, 2014

MIT & "extremely personalized medicine"

http://www.ted.com/talks/nina_tandon_could_tissue_engineering_mean_personalized_medicine

The hierarchy in your brain: Ray Kurzweil at TED 2014

"Kurzweil predicts that in 20 years nano-bots will enter the brain through capillaries to connect us to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud. So if someone walks past you whom you want to impress, but your 300 million modules aren’t enough to come up with something clever to say, all you need to do is tap into the neocortex in the cloud and another billion modules will become available. The future human, says Kurzweil, will be a biological and nonbiological hybrid.
Two million years ago when we developed large foreheads, it was a quantitative increase that led to a vast qualitative explosion – of art, culture and technology. In the next few decades, Kurzweil predicts, we’re going to do it again: And this time, 'We won’t be limited by the fixed architecture of the enclosure. We will expand without limits.'"

http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/20/the-hierarchy-in-your-brain-ray-kurzweil-at-ted2014/

"GoogleGlass and other Marvels/future amazing feats in technology."

from @ZGJR #hcldr My latest TEDxYouth@JBMHS, "GoogleGlass and other Marvels/future amazing feats in technology. http://t.co/Gta9MiZr5l
— jack andraka (@jackandraka) February 19, 2014

Digitizing the heart and blood vessels from the inside, in 3D http://t.co/IGR62RWQsA @Gizmodo by @GeorgiaTech pic.twitter.com/6Gne3Nn5Xh
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) February 20, 2014

"Is the crisis of obesity hiding a bigger problem?"

"Both a surgeon and a self-experimenter, Peter Attia hopes to ease the diabetes epidemic by challenging what we think we know and improving the scientific rigor in nutrition and obesity research."

Jack Andraka's TED talk on early detection of pancreas cancer

Complex Science=broken down=plain speak @jackandraka http://t.co/YxiyTHr9ba @TomVargheseJr @endocrine_witch @ProfAmyE @cedarcrestcolle
— Lisa Fields (@PracticalWisdom) February 15, 2014

"IF he wasn't a teenager with enthusiasm only a person sitting in a boring lab doing the same routines all day. Listening to superiors, dealing with problems of an adult than he would've NOT discovered anything like this. We need the youth, the amateurs, the dreamers because they don't care about being fired or getting along with the boss. They just live for their passion."

Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating

MT @eHarmony > @petricek: So here's 25min talk on how eharmony uses data/machine learning 2 find love: http://t.co/0vyrvDOupt #BigDataChat
— Fractal Sciences (@FractalSciences) February 12, 2014

Great review of the movie "Her" via @cathcoste http://t.co/st1G8A7RC8 …
— Fractal Sciences (@FractalSciences) February 12, 2014

Dr. Leana Wen, Emergency Medicine Physician: Liberty, democracy, equity, and justice in healthcare

@StanfordMedX @larrychu @itsthebunk thought you'd be interested in my #TEDx talk: what healthcare dystopia looks like http://t.co/zky9E1k0jc
— Leana S. Wen MD (@DrLeanaWen) February 5, 2014

US healthcare system rewards Tx not prevention.Kudos 2 gutsy @DrLeanaWen a stunning performer! Totally nails it http://t.co/6iMcAPORcm #TEDx
— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) February 6, 2014

@cathcoste For medicos: Rx = treatment with Abx = antibiotics after your Tx = transplant; (when we all learned Latin Rx for "recipe")

— John Belmont (@jwbelmon) February 6, 2014

TEDMED Great Challenges: Genomics and Medicine: Where promise meets clinical practice

Did you miss today's terrific #GreatChallenges discussion on genomics & medicine? You can watch the recast here: http://t.co/7qjAKpH6D5
— TEDMED (@TEDMED) November 21, 2013

Bringing biotechnology in to the home: Cathal Garvey at TEDxDublin

Cathal Garvey is the creator of the blog Indie Biotech, his personal endeavour to provide tools, materials and learning resources for biotechnology to individuals worldwide. Worldwide, the DIYbio movement is taking hold and generating renewed interest in community biotech. Cathal provides affordable, Open-Source-DNA development platforms, kits and strains for beginners to learn the engineering of bacteria easily, and perhaps later to facilitate engineering of plants and simple bugs such as Sea Monkeys. He hopes to change the face of biotech, and perhaps change some lives for the better in the process.

@onetruecathal Thank you Cathal 4 your outstanding TEDx Dublin presentation 'Bringing biotechnologiy in to the home'! http://t.co/TBwdI4dG39

— CATHERINE COSTE (@cathcoste) October 22, 2013

10 Amazing Youth Innovators

"When 12-year-old Steven Gonzalez Jr. was diagnosed Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, a rare form of cancer, doctors said that he had a 2% chance to live. But he beat the odds and survived, though his weak immune system forced him into isolation for 100 days. He credits video games for helping him through the rough experience.
Gonzalez wanted to help other cancer patients his age, and so he created a video game, Play Against Cancer, in which players destroy cancer cells illustrated as green ghosts. He also developed The Survivor Games, a social network and online community for teen cancer patients."



"Kids Code the Darndest Things: 10 Amazing Youth Innovators": watch videos here.

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