Are you smiling? The M.I.T Media Lab has developed a facial-recognition system that identified 25 points on a person's face and tracks their movements to determine what expression the face is making.

New research from Duke University, USA shows that the standard model of vision, called feature detection, is incomplete. Feature detection, which was discovered in 1981, is "a process by which specialized nerve cells in the brain respond to specific features of a visual stimulus, such as lines, edges, angle, or movement.

With technological advancements and medical breakthroughs happening every day, researchers are closer to finding cures, causes, and characteristics of common diseases and ailments through genetic research.

BioFocus, a company specializing in drug discovery technologies and services, has recently announced an expansion of their available platforms used for genomic study.

The International Journal of Artificial Life Research (IJALR), one of IGI Global's newest medical technologies and healthcare journals, recently published an exciting new article in its second quarter issue, titled, "A Mathematical Model for a Vibrating Human Head.