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10 Emerging Industries: A Look Into the Future of Opportunities

In today’s rapidly changing world, making informed career and industry choices has never been more crucial. Facing the contemporary challenge of the “employment maze,” young people especially need to consider the potential growth and stability of emerging industries. While technological advancements challenge many traditional sectors, they also pave the way for new opportunities. 10 emerging ...

Emma Lu

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Here’s Why Taiwan Is One of the Healthiest Countries in the World

Although not a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) and often barred from attending the World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer, Taiwan still stands out in the international medical community. In 2000, the Economist’s Intelligence Unit (EIU) of London ranked Taiwan second only to Sweden in terms of being the healthiest country in the world. In November 2005, Nobel Prize Laureate ...

Billy Shyu

Taipei Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.

New Low-Cost Sensor Could Soon Monitor a Range of Health Conditions

An international team of researchers has developed a low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic that can be used to diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions, such as surgical complications or neurodegenerative diseases. The sensor can measure the amount of critical metabolites, such as lactate or glucose, that are present in sweat, tears, saliva ...

Troy Oakes

Hidden Medical Text Can Now Be Read for the First Time in a Thousand Years

With X-ray imaging at SLAC’s synchrotron, scientists uncovered a 6th century hidden medical text translation of a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen. The words had been scraped off the parchment manuscript and written over with hymns in the 11th century. An influential physician and a philosopher of early Western medicine, Galen of Pergamon was ...

Troy Oakes