A new fertility technique allows doctors to replace defective DNA found within a mother's egg with the DNA from another female donor. The result is a baby born with the DNA of two mothers. The first three-parent baby may potentially be born around Christmas of 2017. A new fertility technique allows doctors to replace defective DNA found within a mother's egg with the DNA Scientists will discover the truth behind "dark matter" Dark matter, a mysterious type of matter that makes up a little more than a quarter of the universe, is several experiments away from being detected. Dr. Katherine Freese, an expert in the field of dark matter, says 2017 may be the year "the 80-year-old dark matter puzzle will finally be solved."

So. You're single, it's the weekend, and you don't want a rerun of last Saturday night's chocolate chip pancakes a la mode and Gilmore Girls bingefest. Is it too early to fire up Tinder? In the age of the app, you never have to be alone if you don't want to be. And to make sure you don't get more than you bargained for from your hook-up, a number of companies are now offering a way to share STD test results through your phone. In the last few years, services like myLAB Box, Mately, and GetTested have cropped up to meet millennials where they like to meet sexual partners--online.

India's patent laws allow for reverse-engineering of certain technologies. A prime example of this reverse-engineering is in the pharmaceutical space, where Indian pharma companies are allowed to reverse-engineer drugs, especially life-saving ones. These drugs may have been developed by pharma majors in other parts of the world--and then introduced into western markets--after India-based outsourcing firms had helped them out with clinical trials, data gathering and reporting to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or its equivalent to get these drugs passed. Indian courts have continued to allow such reverse-engineering of drugs--famously prompting Bayer AG's then CEO Martin Dekkers to say at a conference a few years ago, "We did not develop this medicine for Indians. We developed it for western patients who can afford it."

An insider's guide to the business and future of connected technology". Then on BioTech Nation, how much do we know about the clinical trials behind drugs approved by the FDA? JENNIFER MILLER, the Founder and President of Bioethics, International and a professor at NYU Medical School, talks about the Good Pharma Scorecard.

If you ask 100 people for the definition of "artificial intelligence," you'll get at least 100 answers, if not more. At AWS, we define it as a service or system which can perform tasks that usually require human-level intelligence such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making, or translation. On this new AWS blog, we'll be covering these areas and more, with in-depth technical content, customer stories, and new feature announcements. The challenges related to building sophisticated AI systems center mostly around scale: the datasets are large, training is computationally hungry, and inferring predictions can be challenging to do at scale or on lower-power and mobile devices. Customers have been using AWS to solve these general problems for years, and the ability to be able to access storage, GPUs, CPUs, and IoT services on demand has emerged as a perfect fit for intelligent systems in production.

Connected hospitals with intelligent messaging In today's hospitals, pacemakers, defibrillators and oximeters are all connected to the internet and share vitals immediately with doctors, in turn speeding response times. Hospitals have technicians, nurses, staff, billing departments, insurance providers, patients and patients' families as stakeholders, each with different requirements of information about the care given to patient. Unified Inbox offers an AI-based unified cloud IoT messaging platform for internet of things devices to connect various stakeholders, giving them the freedom to receive different messages at different frequency, with different senses of urgency in different mediums of their choice. Unified Inbox launched this at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore as "CUBE," the IoT-secured messaging gateway for healthcare. The artificial intelligence makes the hospitals connected, giving peace of mind to patients and their loved ones while improving efficiency in the overall hospital management and interaction with all stakeholders.

You don't have to be a gambler to appreciate the complexities of the card game Texas Hold'Em. It involves a strategy that needs to evolve based on the players around the table, it takes a certain amount of intuition, and it doesn't require the player to win every hand. Just a few days ago, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm named Libratus beat four professional poker players at a no-limit Texas Hold'Em tournament played out over 20 days. If you have even the slightest understanding of how to write code, you would realize that it is impossible to actually code a software program to do that with such "imperfect information". The AI algorithm did exceptionally well and was utilizing strategies that humans had never used before.

A soft robotic sleeve placed around the heart in a pig model of acute heart failure. The actuators embedded in the sleeve support heart function by mimicking the outer heart muscles that induce the heart to beat. An international team of scientists has developed a soft robotic sleeve that can be implanted on the external surface of the heart to restore blood circulation in pigs (and possibly humans in the future) whose hearts have stopped beating. The device is a silicon-based system with two layers of actuators: one that squeezes circumferentially and one that squeezes diagonally, both designed to mimic the movement of healthy hearts when they beat. Heart failure affects 41 million people worldwide.

Machine learning was undoubtedly one of the hottest topics in radiology last year, with a steady stream of academic research papers highlighting how machine learning, particularly deep learning, can outperform traditional algorithms or manual processes in certain use-cases. Investment in machine learning start-ups also continued, with several companies attracting early stage funding. To date, more than $100m has been invested in start-ups that are developing AI solutions for radiology. Furthermore, commercial activity gained pace, with at least 20 companies exhibiting AI-based products at the RSNA conference towards the end of the year, although most were prototypes and only a handful had regulatory clearance. Whilst the enthusiasm for machine learning is certainly justified, it inevitably raises expectations, potentially to unrealistic levels.

I've always had a lot of respect for veterinarians, because they are masters at solving problems based purely on fuzzy symptoms that their patients cannot explain: where it hurts, how long it's been hurting, and what events led up to the problem. Many times the patients don't even know they are sick. Yet a vet is able to make educated guesses with the data they do have, which often results in successful diagnoses and treatments. Wireless local area networks (WLANs) cannot talk, either, which often forces IT administrators to operate like doctors, listening to wireless users describe symptoms in vague terms: "I can't connect." "Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."