by Warp Institute | Sep 1, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Health
By listening to how a person speaks, artificial intelligence can diagnose Alzheimer’s.Alzheimer’s affects millions of people around the world every year. The disease damages brain function and is difficult to detect at an early stage.By comparing the...
by Warp Institute | Aug 25, 2020 | Health
Thanks to a massive vaccination program that has been going on for decades, polio infection has now been eradicated from the African continent.Forty-six African presidents, WHO and many more had reason to celebrate when the news was released .According to Dr....
by Warp Institute | Aug 15, 2020 | Health
Access to clean drinking water is a growing challenge for many communities. If we can find a scalable way to desalinate seawater, water scarcity would be a thing of the past in many parts of the world. This is not an easy task, but great progress has been made in the...
by Warp Institute | Aug 8, 2020 | Health
Now we are beginning to see clear examples of how revolutionary gene therapy can be. Most recently, a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, DMD, has been successful.Nine boys who suffered from this serious muscle disease received gene treatment and for most of...
by Warp Institute | Aug 7, 2020 | Health
In the midst of a chaos of violence and war, researchers and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have conducted a clinical study of new drugs to try to combat the Ebola outbreak that has lasted for a year.On Monday, the study’s sponsors, the World Health...
by Warp Institute | Jul 8, 2020 | Health
A surprising discovery in mice in 2013 has now also been observed in humans – the spinal cord fluid clears the brain of toxic substances when we sleep. It provides further evidence of how important sleep really is.Our brain is surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid ....
