One day, in the not so distant future because it’s actually being used in a testing environment today, people will use invisible nano-tattoos to give doctors an instant snapshot of their body’s inner workings. More »
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Satre Stuelke seems to have three passions: McDonald’s fast food, toys, and gadgets—specially the GE 4-slice medical research scanner he uses to create these stunning images and videos at Cornell University’s Biomedical Imaging Centre:
It wasn’t supposed to happen—not yet at least—but it did: This past June, a judge in the Indian state of Maharashtra convicted a woman of killing her ex-fiance, citing as proof an EEG scan showing “experiential knowledge” of the crime. Many people do think there’s something to this, that an EEG or MRI scan of the noggin can depict lies and truth if read correctly, but in the US it’s agreed that this is experimental science at best, and snake-oil sales at worst.
