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Immune Amnesia Caused By Contracting Measles
As awareness surrounding disease rises, and an anti-vaccination movement grows, researchers find more evidence of the importance behind measles vaccination; immune amnesia. Prior to mass vaccination in...
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Meet “Kiwi” A Robot that Helps Autistic Children Learn
A team of researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) have created a robot specifically designed to help autistic children. “Kiwi” is designed as a “socially assistive robot” that uses...
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Bikers Against Child Abuse Protects and Keeps Victims Safe
In 2019, the WHO estimated that roughly 1 billion children aged 2 to 17 years had endured violence, either sexual, physical, or emotional. When a child experiences violence at such an early stage in...
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Audible Made Hundreds of Audiobooks FREE To Support Coronavirus Self-isolators
Audible, the seller and producer of audible entertainment such as audiobooks, just made hundreds of titles free to get people through the isolation of the coronavirus crisis. The new deal is primarily...
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Dolly Parton Donates $1m To A University Working On A Coronavirus Cure
The American singer-songwriter, Dolly Parton, is donating $1m (£808,000) to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where they are working on finding a cure for coronavirus. The staff at the...
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Connecting Insulin And An Artificial Pancreas To A Phone App?
People who have type 1 diabetes may feel like their body is simply working against them. Not being able to correctly produce insulin makes life difficult. Some of the challenges are living with sudden...
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Scientists Find Beneficial Parasite That Protects Mosquitoes From Malaria
Scientists at the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya have found a parasite in wild Anopheles mosquito populations that protects the insect from malaria infection. The organism, which they have called...
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Breakthrough Gene Therapy For Total Color Blindness Passes Clinical Trial
Achromatopsia is an inherited disease that results in total color blindness. Those that have it see only black, white, and grey. Their eyes are also susceptible to bright light, like the sun, and their...
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Nitrogen Dioxide Exposure Increases Risk of Schizophrenia And More
Psychosis And Schizophrenia Last year we reported on a study carried out in the UK by King’s College London that found a significant association with exposure to air pollution (nitrogen dioxide,...
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Childhood Gamers Have Better Working Memory As Adults
Playing video games as a child helps you perform better at working memory tasks as an adult. New research by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) shows how cognitive changes in the brain can occur...
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