Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the Technology category.

Checking in on the Status of Electronic Application Submissions

Filed in Technology, October 28, 2008, 12:01 am by Scott Alexander ,

A few years ago, I was the project manager for a system that tracked the status of drug products worldwide for a large pharmaceutical company (e.g. whether a product was submitted for approval, approved, actively marketed, withdrawn, etc.).  Back then, health authorities, such as the FDA in the US and the EMEA in the European [...]

Pharmaceutical Profile: Sequenom

Filed in Clinical Trials, Pediatric Medicine, Research, Sociology, Technology, September 23, 2008, 12:01 am by Mariano DiFabio ,

I was reading my monthly copy of Pharmaceutical Executive magazine when I came across Joanna Breitstein’s excellent article profiling the latest trend in the pharmaceutical arena: big deals that are safe bets.  In her article, “Place your Bets,” Breitstein characterizes Roche’s bid to acquire Genentech as a reflection of the cautious approach to deal-making that [...]

NanoGuardian: Ensuring the Your Medicine is Safe

Filed in Research, Safety, Technology, August 26, 2008, 12:01 am by Mariano DiFabio , , ,

I was packaged April 28, 2008, in Puerto Rico. My Batch Number is AA6-73P008. I will expire on January 15, 2012. I am associated with 2-D barcode KBDCHDH1528. I was packaged for distribution in Canada. I can tell you as much information as you design me [...]

Little Exercise, Big Benefit

Filed in Personal Health, Technology, August 12, 2008, 12:01 am by Mariano DiFabio

About four weeks ago, around the time the elliptical machine in my basement decided to break, I resolved it was time for me to (begrudgingly) start running again. In the four weeks since, I have built myself up from a labored breathing after only eight tenths of a mile to a more modest pant [...]

Back to Virtuality

Filed in Research, Sociology, Technology, June 17, 2008, 4:50 pm by Mariano DiFabio , ,

It’s been a while since I last wrote on the blog, and for those of you that follow regularly, I apologize. We’ve had a lot going on in our company, and if you haven’t already heard, we re-designed our web site (go to www.avelient.com to see the new site) and released our first major [...]

New Storage Devices

Filed in Technology, February 26, 2008, 10:51 pm by Mariano DiFabio

In technology, there is a constant struggle for more storage. As consumers, we are continually introduced to new ways to use computers to express ourselves, but those expressions require more and more hard drive space. Consider even that the standard storage of many MP3 players are several times larger than that of computer [...]

Searching for Health

Filed in Technology, February 22, 2008, 6:40 am by Mariano DiFabio ,

At heart, I am a technology addict. I have 2 computers at home that I use, I have a cell phone, and I love using my iPod Touch to organize and reference my calendar everywhere. I would, quite honestly, love to be writing a technology blog, but I just think that would be [...]

Seeing Double: Pet Cloning

Filed in General, Research, Technology, February 19, 2008, 11:15 pm by Mariano DiFabio

In 1996, the scientific community saw a breakthrough when Dolly the sheep was deemed the first animal cloned from an adult sheep cell. With the breakthrough came a slew of moral questions asked by any number of groups. Were we playing God? Were we going too far? What kinds of problems [...]

Bridging Solitary to Social Via Virtual Reality

Filed in Personal Health, Research, Sociology, Technology, January 15, 2008, 11:57 pm by Mariano DiFabio ,

It’s not often that 2 subjects that pique my interest converge so nicely into one article.
As you know from a number of posts on this blog, I’ve been writing extensively about my experiences in Second Life, and how pioneers in this virtual world are leveraging its unique characteristics to either further their educational mission or [...]

Personal Doctor in my Pill

Filed in General, Technology, January 8, 2008, 11:59 am by Mariano DiFabio

You may remember my article about Swiss experimentation with Microbots and their potential for use in new surgical procedures in the future. Being a technology professional, I’m amazed when we can identify ways to leverage technology to make things smaller or to make smaller things do more. Along those lines, I was fascinated [...]