Wearables of the future might be used as a diagnostic tool to spot disease early, according to a study by the Stanford University School of Medicine.

The researchers collected approximately two billion measurements from 60 people for the study, who wore between one and eight commercial wearable devices. Using that data, the researchers were able to recognize changes in a person’s heartrate, blood oxygen, skin temperature, sleep, and calories burnt, which correlate with the onset of a disease.

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Korean researchers have designed a “smart contact lens” that may one day allow patients with diabetes and glaucoma to self-monitor blood glucose levels and internal eye pressure.*

The study was conducted by researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) and Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, both of South Korea.

Most previously reported contact lens sensors can only monitor a single analyte (such as glucose) at a time, and generally obstruct the field of vision of the subject.

Image: Smart contact lens on mannequin eye (credit: UNIST)

Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics Corp. has been clear about its ambitions to build an unlimited supply of certain transplantable organs.

Now, founder Martine Rothblatt said the company's new multiyear collaboration with a 3-D bioprinting company, takes it a big step toward that goal.

United Therapeutics (NASDAQ: UTHR), which now mostly develops and sells pulmonary hypertension drugs, announced a development agreement to create "solid-organ scaffolds" for human transplants with Rock Hill, South Carolina-based 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD).

Image: Martine Rothblatt of United Therapeutics has previously touted a goal of manufacturing an unlimited supply of transplantable human organs. - http://www.bizjournals.com

Last month, Scott Darling, president of Dell Technologies' venture arm, sent four emails to his new chief executive officer over the course of an hour. He didn't wait long for responses. After each message, Michael Dell responded within about five minutes, and by about 11:30 p.m. the last communication on new investments was wrapped up.

More and more people are working remotely, and many say it improves their productivity and satisfaction — while also saving them time and money. If you’re commuting to an office every day but would like to work elsewhere on a weekly basis, how can you convince your boss to let you do so? What arguments or evidence should you use? And what factors will increase your chances of securing a regular work-at-home schedule?

University technology transfer programs in Michigan now have a new pot of money to support their efforts, thanks to a state-supported fund that began accepting applications this week.

The University Early Stage Proof of Concept Fund, also known as the Advance grant program, will help move research projects and technologies developed at Michigan universities from the discovery phase to commercialization.

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Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. Despite their own focus on changing the world, they often forget that they too have to change rapidly and often as the market evolves. Too many find that out too late, and are left chasing a rabbit that is long gone.

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe, in a classic HBR article on change readiness for large companies, define it as “the ability to continuously initiate and respond to change in ways that create advantage, minimize risk, and sustain performance.”

Q: When I left my job to start my own small business, I thought I had left the world of bad bosses behind. I do a lot of freelance work now, but what I have found is that now instead one just one, I have four! Working for yourself isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be, Mr. Strauss.  —  Anita

A:  Though there is very little good that can be said about the Not-So-Great Recession (2007-2009), one upside was that not a few laid-off people decided to go their own way, start their own gigs and came to realize that they might be better off without that lousy job and crazy boss.

The next time you feel a 3 p.m. slump coming on, skip the vending machine and head to the stairwell instead. According to a new study, 10 minutes of stair-walking is better for energy levels and work motivation than the amount of caffeine in a can of soda. For the new research, published in the journal Physiology and Behavior, University of Georgia researchers wanted to measure the effects of a simple exercise that could be done in a typical office setting where sedentary workers may only have a few minutes at a time for breaks.

Thousands of millennials are moving to the suburbs of Riverside, Calif., San Antonio, Texas and Orlando, Fla. The burbs of those three metro areas saw the greatest growth in the number of adults aged 25 to 34 between 2010 and 2015, according to data from the Urban Land Institute provided to TIME. "Riverside is a long way from Austin, Portland or Seattle in terms of coolness, but a lot of those things that make those cities attractive to the millennials — craft breweries, independent stores and restaurants — they're now springing up here," says local real estate developer Randall Lewis.

Columbus, Detroit, Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland — startup hot spots like these are popping up across the nation as innovation and entrepreneurship are on the rise. However, while momentum is building in the Midwest, several misguided business regulations are stunting the startup community’s full potential. After much discussion with fellow VentureOhio board members, including Mark Kvamme of Drive Capital and the leaders at the NVCA, we’ve identified four key regulations in particular that are throttling growth: the Volcker Rule, Qualified Small Business Stock Rules, Section 382, and the Registered Investment Advisor Rules.

Pascal Timmermans created this easy to understand infographic to visualize the Lean Startup methodology from Eric Ries to explain it to others. The methodology helps start-ups and existing companies to be more innovative, stop wasting people’s time and be more succesful. Feedback is welcome, and sharing also.

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If you lead a commercial transportation company, you’re heading toward one of two starkly different futures. If you run Carrier A, you continue to travel down the path you’ve been on. You provide shippers with cheap and reliable service using established product and performance definitions and metrics. If you run Carrier B, you embrace innovation. Your business bears only passing resemblance to what it was before. By adopting aspects of advanced vehicle-related IT systems, automated fleet management, cloud-based data analytics, robotics, location detection, and autonomous vehicle technologies, you have gained the flexibility and capabilities to shift gears and focus on the most profitable services based on your customers’ ever-changing needs.

There’s an incredible amount of excitement and innovation happening in the mobility industry in the Ann Arbor region. Some great examples are American Center for Mobility, Mcity, and Washtenaw Community College’s (WCC) Advanced Transportation Center.

Autonomous vehicles are going to change the world, in ways we might not have imagined. There are potential implications for how we live, how our cities operate and the types of jobs available. There will be potential job disruptions, and new types of jobs that emerge with this technology. There will also be new types of mechanics, new types of service providers, and new issues that will need to be resolved.

This year, founder Carl Brown says the firm will grow by 50 percent to 60 percent and hit $4 million to $5 million in revenue. He expects to add two more employees, giving the firm a total of about 18. One of the factors behind its growth spurt: Brown participated in a six-month program called Scale Up Milwaukee, part of a larger movement to encourage established entrepreneurs in second-tier cities — and it's beginning to take off worldwide.

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What goes into creating a thriving tech and innovation ecosystem? It’s a question we here at Technical.ly are always considering and always curious about.

Which is why we were excited to head to a Information Technology and Innovation Foundation event on Learning From the World’s Leading Startup Ecosystems earlier this week. There were talks from people like Jill Ford, special advisor to Mayor Mike Duggan in Detroit, and Katie Stebbins, assistant secretary for Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. But the talk of Victor Mulas, who leads research on innovation and entrepreneurship in cities at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, really stood out to us.

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The great contradiction at the heart of the Silicon Valley’s self-image is that it helps the world while becoming fabulously rich. The record, to say the least, is mixed.

Facebook, Google, and Apple undoubtedly benefit millions of peoples’ lives while generating enormous, unprecedented wealth (for some). Yet the human toll—lost jobs, exploited contractors, massive concentration of wealth at the expense of the lower and middle class, and shuttered newspapers and small companies—are just as real.

Tax incentives—including credits, exemptions, and deductions—are one of the primary tools that states use to try to create jobs, attract new businesses, and strengthen their economies. Incentives are also major budget commitments, collectively costing states billions of dollars a year. Given this importance, policymakers across the country increasingly are demanding high-quality information on the results of tax incentives.

Economists expect that millions of American jobs are going to be replaced by automation in the coming decades. But where will those job losses take place? Which areas will be hardest hit?

Much of the focus regarding automation has been on the Rust Belt. There, many workers have been replaced by machines, and the number of factory jobs has slipped as more production is offshored. While a lot of the rhetoric about job loss in the Rust Belt has centered on such outsourcing, one study from Ball State University found that only 13 percent of manufacturing job losses are attributable to trade, and the rest to automation.

Singapore’s intellectual property (IP) agency recently launched a S$1 billion innovation fund. Why in the world is a patents office launching an innovation fund?

It has a lot to do with Singapore’s need to constantly push its economy to stay ahead of other nations. The Committee on the Future Economy lays out a vision that “innovation will drive the economy”, says Daren Tang, Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS).