❤️ Health Tech
💔 Crispr is supposed to cure cardiac disease
Researchers from Oxford in Great Britain and Harvard in the United States have received a grant of 375 million SEK to develop a method to use the genetic scissor Crispr to cure inherited heart diseases. This is a disease that often affects young people. In the UK...
👂 Breakthrough in the treatment of tinnitus
Hearing phantom sounds, such as screeching or buzzing, is a common problem for those with tinnitus, but the cause behind the symptoms can vary – and is sometimes completely unknown. Treatment of tinnitus has long been sought without direct progress. Often,...
👁 Cornea made from pigskin can restore sight to the blind
Close to 13 million people in the world are blind due to corneal damage. They can get their sight back through a transplant, but there are only donors so that's enough for 1 in 70, of those who are in need for a new cornea. Now researchers at Linköping...
🍹 App helps those who want to drink less
Approximately 15 percent of adults in Sweden drink so much alcohol that it can be defined as risky consumption with an increased risk of various diseases, accidents and premature death. For many it is therefore important to drink less, but it can be difficult for some...
