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Book chapters and other contributions  Back to Top
  • Swan, M. Response to The Edge Question 2012: What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? John Brockman, Editor, 2012.
  • Swan, M. Top ten recent nanomedical advances. Raj Bawa, Gerald F. Audette and Israel Rubinstein (Editors): Clinical Nanomedicine - from Bench to Bedside, Pan Stanford Series in Nanomedicine (Raj Bawa, Series Editor) Volume 1, Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, 2012, in press.
Journal publications  Back to Top
  • Swan, M. DIYgenomics citizen science health research studies: personal wellness and preventive medicine through collective intelligence. AAAI Symposium on Self-Tracking and Collective Intelligence for Personal Wellness 2012, Mar. image PDF
  • Swan, M. Crowdsourced Health Research Studies: An Important Emerging Complement to Clinical Trials in the Public Health Research Ecosystem. J Med Internet Res 2012, Mar;14(2):e46. Link
  • Swan, M. Scaling crowdsourced health studies: the emergence of a new form of contract research organization. Personalized Medicine 2012, Mar;9(2):223-234. Link
  • Swan, M. Steady advance of stem cell therapies. Rejuvenation Res. 2011, Dec;14(6):699-704. image PDF
  • Swan, M. Meeting report: American Aging Association 40th annual meeting, Raleigh NC USA June 3-6, 2011. Rejuvenation Res. 2011, Aug;14(4):449-55. image PDF
  • Swan, M., Hathaway, K., Hogg, C., McCauley, R., Vollrath, A. Citizen science genomics as a model for crowdsourced preventive medicine research. J Participat Med. 2010, Dec 23; 2:e20.
  • Swan, M. Multigenic Condition Risk Assessment in Direct-to-Consumer Genomic Services. Genet. Med. 2010, May;12(5):279-88. image PDF; Supplemental Digital Content image XLS; side-by-side loci and SNP comparison by condition: mobile apps, web app, and featured at Access DNA; DIYgenomics citizen science studies.
  • Swan, M. Translational antiaging research. Rejuvenation Res. 2010, Feb;13(1):115-7. image PDF;
  • Swan, M. Engineering Life into Technology: the Application of Complexity Theory to a Potential Phase Transition in Intelligence. Symmetry 2010, 2, 150-183. image PDF
  • Swan, M. Emerging patient-driven health care models: an examination of health social networks, consumer personalized medicine and quantified self-tracking. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2009, 2, 492-525. image PDF
  • NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group Book Club Review of How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman. Jim DeLeo, Alan T. Remaley, G. William Moore, Gerald L. McLaughlin, Ellen J. Bicknell, and Melanie Swan. Clin. Chem. 2009, 55, 2064-2065. image PDF
Unpublished articles   Back to Top
  • New Banks, New Currencies and New Markets in a Multicurrency World: Roadmap for a Post-Scarcity Economy by 2050 (article) (Oct 2009) image PDF
  • Economic Fallacies of Future Technology (article) (Aug 2008) image PDF
  • Future Economy: Roadmap 2050 (paper) (Jul 2008) image PDF
  • Markets 2.0: (essay) (Oct 2006), (presentation) (Apr 2008) image PPT image PDF, Taxonomy, Predictions
  • Genomics Health Revolution (article) (Jun 2009) HTML image DOC image PDF
Conference summaries   Back to Top
Reviews of important futurist points in contemporary books   Back to Top
  • "The Singularity is Near" - Ray Kurzweil (Feb 2006) image audio   image PPT image PDF
  • "On Intelligence" - Jeff Hawkins (Apr 2006) image audio   image PPT image PDF
  • "The Black Swan" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Jun 2007) image PPT image PDF
  • "Collapse"- Jared Diamond (Jun 2006) image audio   image PPT image PDF
  • "Blink" - Malcolm Gladwell (Mar 2006) image audio   image PPT image PDF
  • "How Doctors Think" - Jerome Groopman (Sep 2007) image PPT image PDF

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