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New Clinical Study Shows Board Games Can Help Alzheimer’s Patients

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PARIS – January 27, 2021 – Asmodee, a leading global publisher and distributor of board games, and Game in Lab, today announced the findings of its first clinical study observing the effects of play and its potential applications. The study, titled Cognitive – Adaptation – Behavior, found that games can have significant beneficial effects for those suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Mount Sinai and LifeMap Solutions Announce Initial Results for Asthma Health App and New Features to Enhance Clinical Impact

NEW YORK – September 29, 2015 – The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and LifeMap Solutions, a digital-health subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., today announced initial results and new clinical features for their free Asthma Health app. Released six months ago, the app enables individuals with asthma to participate in a large-scale medical research study by simply using their Apple iPhones. The app’s newest features—the “Doctor Dashboard” and integration with Epic, the popular electronic health records (EHR) system—will help enable Asthma Health study participants to use the app with their physicians. Continue reading Mount Sinai and LifeMap Solutions Announce Initial Results for Asthma Health App and New Features to Enhance Clinical Impact

LifeMap Sciences, a Subsidiary of BioTime, Announces Release of VarElect, the Next Generation Sequencing Phenotyper

ALAMEDA, Calif. – January 15, 2015 – LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., announced today the commercial release of VarElect, a powerful, yet easy-to-use application for prioritizing gene variants resulting from next generation sequencing (“NGS”) experiments. VarElect rapidly prioritizes gene variants according to their potential association to a disease or phenotype of interest, and can aid in identifying the roles of genes and their variants in biological processes, health, and disease.

Access VarElect here: http://varelect.genecards.org. Continue reading LifeMap Sciences, a Subsidiary of BioTime, Announces Release of VarElect, the Next Generation Sequencing Phenotyper

New Research from DoubleDutch Shows that Event App Adoption Has Reached the Tipping Point

More Organizers Than Ever are Using Apps for their Events, and the Majority of Non-app Users Plan to Adopt One for Future Events

SAN FRANCISCO — Aug. 4, 2014 — Mobile event technology leader DoubleDutch today announced the early results of its new research on the proliferation and use of mobile technology in the meeting and event industry. Conducted in partnership with Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the research found that 63 percent of meeting and event planners are already using mobile applications for their events, and 60 percent of the remainder plan to use an app in the near future. These statistics suggest that mobile event applications have reached a critical mass in terms of use and popularity, and are now considered a necessary part of a successful event. Continue reading New Research from DoubleDutch Shows that Event App Adoption Has Reached the Tipping Point

Smile for the Camera: New Data Shows People Are Four Times Nicer When They Post Pictures on Social Media

Text Posts Alone Are Seven Times More Likely to Show Negative Sentiment than Pictures

SAN FRANCISCO – June 5, 2014 – Chute, a visual-marketing company, which helps brands discover and publish consumer photos and videos, has released results from a study showing how consumer sentiment differs by social media format. The study, which examined almost 6,000 posts and tweets about 30 leading consumer brands, found consumers are overwhelmingly more positive about brands when posting images instead of text on Twitter and Instagram. The results provide powerful insights for marketers trying to optimize their brands’ social media presence. Continue reading Smile for the Camera: New Data Shows People Are Four Times Nicer When They Post Pictures on Social Media

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