❤️ Health Tech
🧬DeepMind plans to releases a database with all known proteins in the world
A few months ago, we published an Optimist's Edge article on how science is trying to find a cure for aging. Proteins play a major role in aging, and the fact is that they play a major role in almost all biological processes. Proteins have a variety of functions...
🌋 Mobile app reunites families in vulcano eruption
On 22 May, 2021 a volcano erupted from Mount Nyiragongo in Goma, eastern part of DRC, leaving a trail of destruction. According to BBC 250 people were killed and 120,000 were left homeless while UNICEF noted that more than 100 children were reportedly missing at...
😩 An inflatable implant can ease pain more efficient than pills
Those who suffer from severe pain in, for example, the back or legs can hopefully get access to a new kind of pain relief soon. Researchers from Cambridge University in the UK have developed an implant that can relieve pain even in cases where painkillers do not help....
🥽VR provides pain relief to kids with burn injuries
In the United States alone, 250,000 children are burn-injured each year. Of course, a burn injury hurts when it happens, but it also hurts during dressing changes. To relieve the pain, doctors often use opioids, but worst case, kids could get addicted to the...
