❤️ Health Tech
Health Tech, or digital health, helps us understand and take control of our own health. But we also cover more traditional health news like medicines, vaccines and medical procedures.
🖖 Technical breakthrough makes a hand prosthesis feel and function like a normal hand
Researchers have taken an existing prosthesis and made it much more accurate and easier to use.
👩⚕️ Gates Foundation launches initiative to speed development of therapies for the coronavirus
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard have committed up to $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 epidemic by identifying, assessing, developing, and scaling-up treatments.
🧬 Google's super AI helps scientists understand the coronavirus
DeepMind became famous by winning over humans in the complicated board game Go, but the artificial intelligence can also be used to understand a virus and help find a vaccine.
💊 AI has found a new type of antibiotic that works against many resistant bacteria
Researchers at MIT in the US have used AI to investigate millions of different chemical compounds that can act as antibiotics and the result is a promising new type of antibiotic.
💉 Congo free from Ebola
The last patient treated for Ebola in Congo-Kinshasa has been discharged, reports the WHO. The major Ebola crisis in the country may be over.
❤️ World's first A.I. can predict heart attacks or strokes better than a doctor
Researchers said it's the first time blood flow scans, which reveal problems with the heart, have been read by a computer.
🧬 Genome sequencing cost $100 million 20 years ago - now it's $299
Nebula Genomics offers a mapping of your entire genome for $ 299.
🧬 Scientists find molecular ‘Switch’ that could lead to treatments for all kinds of disease by reversing inflammation and aging
“In the past, we showed that aged stem cells can be rejuvenated. Now, we are asking: to what extent can aging be reversed? And we are doing that by looking at physiological conditions, like inflammation and insulin resistance, that have been associated with aging-related degeneration and diseases.”
💪 Part 2: Prosthetic arms above the elbow are impossible everyone said - until a designer turned engineer went to work
In 2016, Ben Ryan designed and created his 3D printed hydraulic prosthetic arm for his son Sol. Now, Ambionics has changed the life of another child and his family.