TED talks are an annual conference for sharing revolutionary ideas and inventions with the scientific community at large. This year saw the addition of TEDMED, dedicated to innovations in the medical field, and Wired.com provided a great overview.
This year's talks were heavily centered around gadgets, digitization and how they might impact the future of medicine. Wireless monitoring technologies were shown off, a project to collect over 100,000 human genomes is off to a solid start, and living cultures of artificially grown tissue were passed around to attendees.
All in all, a great article on some phenomenal innovations. Read more for an excerpt from the article, or Click here to view it on Wired.com.
From the Wired.com Article:
" The TEDMED conference gave 400
people a glimpse at the future of healthcare last week, bringing
together an eclectic group of innovators, from photographers to stem
cell experts, each with a different point to make.
Tissue engineering is a thermite-hot topic this year. Damien Bates, the chief medical officer of Organogenesis, showed that sheets of lab-grown tissue can be used to mend stubborn wounds, like diabetic ulcers... He passed around sheets of living tissue sitting on pink culture plates."
