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Using Google Glass to monitor organs-on-chips

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Google Glass : Explorer version Credit: Dan Leveille, twitter.com/danlev Courtesty: Wikimedi

Google Glass: Explorer Edition Credit: Dan Leveille, twitter.com/danlev Courtesy: Wikimedia

Researchers have introduced Google Glass as a new application for monitoring and controlling organs-on-chips according to a March 18, 2016 news item on ScienceDaily,

Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH [Boston, Massachussetts]) have developed hardware and software to remotely monitor and control devices that mimic the human physiological system. Devices known as organs-on-chips allow researchers to test drug compounds and predict physiological responses with high accuracy in a laboratory setting. But monitoring the results of such experiments from a conventional desktop computer has several limitations, especially when results must be monitored over the course of hours, days or even weeks.

Google Glass, one of the newest forms of wearable technology, offers researchers a hands-free and flexible monitoring system. To make Google Glass work for their purposes, Zhang et al. custom developed hardware and software that takes advantage of voice control command (“ok glass”) and other features in order to not only monitor but also remotely control their liver- and heart-on-a-chip systems. Using valves remotely activated by the Glass, the team introduced pharmaceutical compounds on liver organoids and collected the results. …

A March 18, 2016 BWH press release on EurekAlert, which originated the news item, describes the hopes for this new combined platform,

“We believe such a platform has widespread applications in biomedicine, and may be further expanded to health care settings where remote monitoring and control could make things safer and more efficient,” said senior author Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, Director of the Biomaterials Innovation Research Center at BWH.

“This may be of particular importance in cases where experimental conditions threaten human life – such as work involving highly pathogenic bacteria or viruses or radioactive compounds,” said leading author, Shrike Zhang, PhD, also of BWH’s Biomedical Division.

Here’s a link to and a citation for the paper,

Google Glass-Directed Monitoring and Control of Microfluidic Biosensors and Actuators by Yu Shrike Zhang, Fabio Busignani, João Ribas, Julio Aleman, Talles Nascimento Rodrigues, Seyed Ali Mousavi Shaegh, Solange Massa, Camilla Baj Rossi, Irene Taurino, Su-Ryon Shin, Giovanni Calzone, Givan Mark Amaratunga, Douglas Leon Chambers, Saman Jabari, Yuxi Niu, Vijayan Manoharan, Mehmet Remzi Dokmeci, Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, & Ali Khademhossein. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 22237 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep22237 Published online: 01 March 2016

This paper is open access.

For media types only: get accreditation for GROW conference, deadline: June 30, 2014

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Here’s the scoop from a June 18, 2014 announcement in my email box (I am not familiar with this conference or these folks),

– Media Advisory –

MEDIA ACCREDITATION FOR THE 2014 GROW CONFERENCE CLOSING
JUNE 30

Whistler, BC – Media accreditation for the 2014 GROW Conference is open, but closes on June 30, at 5pm PST. Media can apply for accreditation, here.

One of North America’s leading technology conferences, GROW takes place from August 20-22 in beautiful Whistler, BC at the world-renowned Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort.

WHAT:     GROW Conference 2014 – “the Connected Future”
WHEN:      Wednesday, August 20, 2014 to Friday, August 22

WHERE:    Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort, Whistler, BC, Canada.

WHO:       CEOs, Founders, Startups and VCs, including but not limited to:

HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THIS YEAR’S TOPICS:

  • What will billion dollar companies look like in a connected world?
  • Is open data in danger of creating a class system?
  • Connected devices, homes and cars – can our lives be hacked?
  • What does context-aware computing mean for privacy?
 _______________________________________________________________
New speakers are being added on a weekly basis – please check the website for updates.

Media interested in accreditation can apply here with all details completed, no later than 5pm PST June 30, 2014.

Applications submitted after this date won’t be considered for accreditation. Full details and additional information will follow upon confirmation of accreditation.

Good luck!