To what extent can human beings merge with machines? If you're Ray Kurzweil, the answer is 'pretty soon'. The co-founder of the Singularity University predicts that in 25 years' time, it will be impossible to tell the difference between...

Another quick follow up to the business of virtual surgery and the cybergloves that we demonstrated at Ideaworks Germany. Here's a quick video, courtesy of the folks at Medgadget , of the latest version of the laproscopy video game from Grendel Games...

One of the main challenges facing surgeons is that mid-operation you sometimes need to refer to images and records in addition to those that have been attached to the surgery wall. Rather than wait for a colleague to dig out the information from an archive...

At the start of this year I wrote about some of the issues facing the future of cloud computing in healthcare . Compliance and privacy were obviously concerns and I suggested that one way around these challenges was to host on bordered and locally defined...

Why the convergence of scientific, academic and government data, and the 'database' of the citizen is the future of healthcare I could make a strong argument that we are all database managers. For example, consider the user experience of a simple...

Everyone knows the challenge of writing a short CV or a biography. And like most people I've got a standard text that I adapt for my colleagues, the next conference or a research paper. But when I meet someone for the very first time, especially when...

GSK’s announcement that it will make its Malaria compound archives publicly available has grabbed headlines and invited plenty of comments. Many are sceptical that such a huge company should open up the doors on its research and take a stand for...