There’s an endless list of apps that track your health, but MyBehavior is the first mobile app to include a suggestion engine that learns a user’s physical activity and dietary behavior in order to provide finely-tuned, personalized suggestions. Developed by researchers at Cornell’s Interaction Design Lab, MyBehavior continually adapts its suggestions by exploiting the most frequent healthy behaviors, while sometimes exploring non-frequent behaviors, in order to maximize the user’s chance of reaching a health goal. The researchers have been working on MyBehavior for more than two years and recently conducted a 14-week study with 16 people using the app on Android smartphones. The Interaction Design Lab is expected to launch the app sometime in September of this year.

Scientists at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have created silicon chips that mimic the function of living human organs. Their organs-on-chips technology won the 2015 Design of the Year award from the Design Museum in London. It’s the first time the award has gone to a design from the field of medicine, beating off competition from Google’s self-driving car, a project to clean up plastic from the sea and an advertising campaign to convince people to buy misshapen fruit. The micro-devices work by recreating the tissue interfaces of human organs inside a transparent polymer “chip,” so the behaviors of bacteria, drugs and human white blood cells can be easily monitored through a microscope. These new devices could end animal testing and revolutionize the development of new drugs. Learn more at the Wyss Institute.