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Health USA

11. March 2022

Two Children Get First-Ever Treatment for This Deadly Disease

Two children in the United States have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease — and the effects have proven to be promising!

Animals

Animals Australia

7. March 2022

These Birds Protect Each Other – and Outwit Scientists!

Researchers have placed small GPS tracking devices on Australian magpies in an effort to learn more about their movements and social dynamics - and quickly uncovered an unusual problem-solving behavior in the birds.

Health

Health Australia

4. March 2022

Sound Can Heal Our Body… and Regrow Bone Cells!

Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia, developed a high-frequency sound wave device that transforms human stem cells to bone cells, helping the body heal itself in a promising discovery for cancer and degenerative disease patients.

Health

Health United Kingdom

1. March 2022

The Pandemic Has Made Vaccine and Drug Developments Much More Efficient

In order to contain the corona pandemic, scientists and researchers redoubled their efforts in finding treatments, and today, other diseases and conditions profit from the gains made in medicine and science.

Health

Health Switzerland

21. February 2022

Paralyzed Man Walks Again (Thanks to Science)!

Thanks to an implant developed by a team of Swiss researchers, a paralyzed man whose spinal cord was severed managed to walk again, giving hope to all the physically handicapped people.

Health

Health Australia

18. February 2022

HIV Elimination Is Now Within Reach Here

HIV diagnoses have hit an all-time low in Australia, thanks to the country’s early and effective response strategy.

Health

Health USA/Sweden

12. February 2022

Will This “Incurable” Disease Have a Cure At Last?

Two newly-released studies are giving scientists a better idea of what causes multiple sclerosis and what can be done to prevent - or potentially even cure it.

Technology

Technology Canada

27. January 2022

Safer – and Smaller! – Electric Car Batteries on the Horizon

Inside the chemistry labs at the University of Sherbrooke, located in Canada, a team perfected a polymer compound that revolutionizes electric batteries, thus contributing to safer electric cars.

Health

Health USA

15. January 2022

Hope for Many: First Organ Transplant of This Kind in History

In a highly experimental, unprecedented surgery, doctors have successfully placed a gene-edited pig heart into a patient. Days after the surgery, the 57-year-old heart recipient, David Bennett, is doing well.

Technology

Technology Ukraine

6. January 2022

Nuclear Disaster Site is Being Decontaminated – Using Natural Resources!

A Ukrainian state-owned enterprise in charge of monitoring radiation in Chernobyl partnered with a Swiss company specialized in sustainable development with a major mission in mind: decontaminating plots of land in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.