Technology of sleep monitoring… consumer beware!
In contrast to gold standard medical sleep monitoring, which entails a full night of monitoring in a lab and hours of specialist analysis, commercial… Read more »
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Are your tweets feeling well? Opinion and emotion in tweets change when you get sick
Can we tell if a person is physically ill by the way they tweet? On a recently published article in the journal EPJ Data Science, researchers at the… Read more »
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The use of social networks associated with increased computer literacy skills in adolescents
It's a widely held view that adolescents spend far too much time communicating with peers on their smartphones. However, new… Read more »
Biotechnology for Biofuels – Special Issue on Life Cycle Analysis
For biofuels to be a successful replacement for fossil fuels, they must be both economically viable and truly sustainable.… Read more »
How apps can support people to moderate their drinking
With smart phones constantly at our finger tips, apps that promote and support health related behavioral changes, such as reducing… Read more »
Web or app: What’s best for your mobile behavioral intervention?
As the world becomes more mobile, so do the ways we reach people to help them improve their health. In this blog, based on our… Read more »
Tackling genomic data corruption with a new tool
Data conversions and formatting defaults can cause unwanted transformations to scientific data. A recently published article in… Read more »
Systems Medicine: Computing the state of the body
BMC Systems Biology is delighted to announce the launch of a thematic series on ‘Systems Medicine’ and its associated ‘Call… Read more »
Machine learning reveals correlations of gene expression and outcomes in ovarian cancer
New research published today in BMC Medical Genomics uses a machine learning algorithm to analyze the complexity of cancer tumors… Read more »
Machine learning around the clock
From letting us know when to sleep to influencing the effectiveness of medications, our circadian clock exerts a powerful… Read more »