by Warp Institute | Aug 19, 2022 | ❤️ Health Tech
Close to 13 million people in the world are blind due to corneal damage. They can get their sight back through a transplant, but there are only donors so that's enough for 1 in 70, of those who are in need for a new cornea. Now researchers at Linköping...
by Warp Institute | Aug 14, 2022 | ❤️ Health Tech
Approximately 15 percent of adults in Sweden drink so much alcohol that it can be defined as risky consumption with an increased risk of various diseases, accidents and premature death. For many it is therefore important to drink less, but it can be difficult for some...
by Warp Institute | Aug 11, 2022 | ❤️ Health Tech
When the heart stops beating, all organs in the body also die quickly. But researchers from Yale University in the US have developed a method, OrganEx, that can bring dead organs back to life. The method involves pumping in synthetic blood together with a cocktail of...
by Warp Institute | Aug 4, 2022 | ❤️ Health Tech
People with Down syndrome have three copies of one chromosome, chromosome 21, instead of two. Chromosome 21 contains a gene that codes for a protein, APP, that forms amyloid. As amyloid increases the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, as many as 80 percent of...
by Warp Institute | Jul 30, 2022 | ❤️ Health Tech
Over 10,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed and 2,200 people die from the disease each year. But the chance of survival is still relatively good. 85.8 percent of men who receive a prostate cancer diagnosis live for ten years after receiving the...
