by Warp Institute | Jul 28, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech, 📈 Human Progress, 🧠 Artificial Intelligence
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...
by Warp Institute | Jul 5, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech
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...
by Warp Institute | Jul 1, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech
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....
by Warp Institute | Jun 29, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech
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...
by Warp Institute | Jun 24, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech, ❤️ Health Tech
From guaranteed death to guaranteed survival. That was the difference when researchers at Cornell University in the USA gave bees a kind of vaccine against pesticides, reports Fast Company. The vaccine consists of microparticles filled with an enzyme that breaks down...
