The pace of technology continues to accelerate, from CRISPR heading into the clinic, pharma launching smartphone based digital trials, and even Augmented Reality gaming demonstrating rapid adoption and impact on activity & wellness via Pokémon Go (I just hit level 8...  :-) 

In addition to recent future of healthcare news I wanted to share:

1. Takeaways and Summaries from the Exponential Medicine 2015 Program. Feel free to share the 45 pages of rich highlights with colleagues and friends. This video also provides a great overview of the Exponential Medicine experience.

2. Exponential Medicine Talks: This week watch Laurence Ainouz share how tech is enabling crowd sourced emergency medical response, and former Marine Derek Herrera on helping spinal cord patients by blending digital health and medical devices. 

3. Apply now to join us this October 8-11th for Exponential Medicine (Early Bird Pricing expires August 1st).

4. Checkout the 1st set of 2016 Faculty (more to be announced).
Innovation Lab applications are also open for 50 top startups to  share their work & vision and compete for a MEDy award.

5. Scholarships: A limited number of full scholarships (in addition to academic and nonprofit discounts) are available to attend Exponential Medicine. Apply via the Singularity University Impact Fellows program.
 

News Impacting the Future of Health & Medicine

Exponential Technologies
Chinese scientists to pioneer first human CRISPR trial (Nature)
Robotic Stingrays Made with Rat Heart, Algae, and Plastic Fins (MIT)
Mushroom leather, tiny Zika detectors and lab-made breast milk debut at IndieBiodemo day (TechCrunch)
How Bacteria Will One Day Wire Your Favorite Devices (SingularityHub)

Future of Diagnostics & Therapy
PokeMan Go is getting everyone to exercise (Yahoo)
The Eyeborg: This Man Has A Prosthetic Eye Camera (Futurism)
Having stomach troubles? Try swallowing an origami robot (AP)
All sewn up: Turning surgical sutures into sensors (Economist)
Scalpel, clamp, VR headset: A surgeon’s quest to fix healthcare (IB)

Digital Health & Precision Medicine
Lung Cancer Web App Shows Large Survival Benefit in Trial (Clinical Oncology News)
An electronic face 'tatoo' can biometrically map your mood swings (Digital Trends)
Consumers want text message reminders for prescribed medications (HITNews)
Glaxo is the first drugmaker to use Apple’s ResearchKit (Bloomberg)

Data in Healthcare
On the dark web, medical records are a hot commodity (Fast Company)
Stop the privatization of health data (Nature)
Zika Data From the Lab, and Right to the Web (NYTimes)

NeuroMedicine
Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions (NYTimes)
Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia? (New Yorker)
Digital Suicide Prevention: Can Technology Become a Game-changer?(ICN)