❤️ Health Tech
🧬 42 new genes risk for Alzheimer’s – increases the possibility of treatment
In the largest Alzheimer's study ever conducted, an international research team identified 75 genes that can affect whether a person gets Alzheimer's or not. In the study, the researchers compared the genome of 100,000 Alzheimer's patients with the...
🎗Researchers discover mechanism that can protect against breast cancer
Every year, 9,000 women in Sweden are diagnosed with breast cancer. The odds of being cured of breast cancer have improved in recent decades, and now eight out of ten sufferers survive. But there are still difficult-to-treat forms of breast cancer where mortality is...
🧬 Gene editing with Crispr becomes 4,000 times more accurate
The Crispr gene scissors have an enormous potential to cure diseases, but one problem is that it sometimes makes changes to the wrong part of the patient's genome.But now researchers have developed a method that makes Crispr 4,000 times less likely to cut the...
🧫 Reprogrammed immune cells key to effective cancer treatment
Using the body's immune cells to kill tumor cells is a very promising method of treating cancer. A research group from Lund University in Sweden has found a way to make the technique more efficient.Researchers have investigated how to reprogram human skin cells...
