by Warp Institute | Oct 6, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech
A research group at Uppsala University has developed a method that could mean improved chances to treat Alzheimer's disease. While treatments available today have marginal effects, the Uppsala researchers' method works in a slightly different way.When...
by Warp Institute | Sep 19, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech, 📈 Human Progress
In 2019, 274,000 children died of malaria, but a new method could bring that figure down dramatically. In an experiment in Burkina Faso and Mali, the number of children in need of hospital care decreased by as much as 70 percent.The method has been developed by an...
by Warp Institute | Sep 13, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech
On average, it takes ten years and costs 800 million euros to develop a vaccine. But the covid vaccines show that the process can be much faster, and the EU now wants to expand on this to develop vaccines against all sorts of diseases quickly."Against covid-19,...
by Warp Institute | Sep 9, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech
Known as Wiiqare, the mobile application reduces the costs incurred by patients when they seek medical attention in the Democratic Republic of Congo and enables them to pay for drugs and treatment cash upfront or on credit.Wiiqare developer, Bienvenue Zigabe, told...
by Warp Institute | Aug 26, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech, 🤖 Robotics
Xenobot is the term used for small robots consisting of living cells. They make up a completely new life form. According to one of the researchers behind the first xenobots, professor Josh Bongard, there are almost no limits to the potential of this new biotechnology....