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Janet Fang
Janet Fang
Janet Fang has written for Nature, Discover and the Point Reyes Light. She is currently a lab technician at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. She is based in New York.
Janet Fang
Janet does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Audrey Quinn
Audrey Quinn
Audrey Quinn is a multimedia science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has corresponded for PRI's The World, Radiolab, Deutsche Welle's Living Planet, and a number of NPR affiliate stations. She also produces and hosts a podcast for the Mind Science Foundation. Previously, she performed neuroscience research at the University of Washington Autism Center and the Seattle VA Hospital.
Audrey Quinn
Audrey does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Archive: 09-2011
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Flinch at the sight of needles? New technology may help you overcome your fear
Thanks to the latest technology, the intradermal flu vaccine may offer squeamish patients an alternative to the traditional flu vaccine.
September 21, 2011, 5:12 AM PDT | By Stacy Lipson
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DARPA, NIH to develop human-body-on-a-chip for drug toxicity tests
Military and biomedical agencies team up for the first time to create a chip that screens for toxic compounds early on. The tech will bring together 10 different human systems.
September 20, 2011, 8:51 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Glowing cancer cells help surgeons remove tumors from ovaries
Ovarian tumor cells tagged with a fluorescent marker light up, allowing surgeons to remove cancerous tissue that could otherwise cause relapses. In humans!
September 19, 2011, 11:08 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Smartphone brain scanner monitors neural signals on the go
Together with a low-cost EEG headset, the handheld touchscreen scanner creates 3D reconstructions of brain activity from the comfort of your home.
September 18, 2011, 9:05 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Painometer: Brain scans help measure pain objectively
Whether something hurts or not is usually a subjective call. Now, Stanford researchers have paired fMRI scans with computer algorithms to accurately identify pain 81% of the time.
September 15, 2011, 1:12 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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New digital camera fires laser beams, takes snapshots of blood flow
To help assess burn victims and their wound healing potential, a microcirculation camera uses laser Doppler imaging to show if and how blood is flowing through the skin.
September 15, 2011, 1:27 AM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Microbial Marketing: bacteria and fungi infect Contagion’s billboard
The viral pandemic movie is cleverly promoted using giant petri dishes treated with live microbes. The science behind it all (and an eerie time-lapse video).
September 14, 2011, 3:19 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Crohnology website offers patients a way to connect across the web
For patients suffering from Crohn’s Disease, a new website called Cronhology is offering patients a way to connect across the digital landscape.
September 14, 2011, 2:31 PM PDT | By Stacy Lipson
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MyMicrobes: social network connects us through gut bacteria
The new online project wants to gather DNA data by offering to sequence our gut bacteria from fecal samples. And you can find people with similar gastrointestinal profiles.
September 12, 2011, 9:16 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Cloud of gases from 9/11 still a mystery
Ten years later, what we know and don’t know about the cough, respiratory ailments and cancer risks from the miasma and smoky dust following the collapse of the two towers.
September 11, 2011, 10:19 PM PDT | By Janet Fang